Again spot on <smile>, I bought a Thunderbolt dock, actually I bought it for my 2011 Mac which had Thunderbolt but didn’t have USB 3.0 and I wanted the extra speed.
Anyway the dock gives extra flexibility to a machine at the plug in of a Thunderbolt cable giving extra USB 3.0 ports, another couple of display ports, more audio ports, more Ethernet ports etc. > On 12 Nov 2014, at 3:34 am, Armando Maldonado > <armando.maldonado0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The firewire port is basically for transferring files if you have a supported > device, as well as if you have a monitor that uses that kind of plug. > Thunderbolt is Apple's way of either plugging in a monitor, which you would > need a special adapter if you have a VGA monitor and it can also be used to > transfer data if you have the proper drive for this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Fanus > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:31 AM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update > > Hello > Thanks for the info but what is a firewire port and a thunderbolt port? For > what are they used? > Regards > Fanus > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Armando Maldonado" <armando.maldonado0...@gmail.com> > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:27 PM > Subject: RE: Mac Mini Update > > > Hello, the Mac Mini is indeed as you described. In addition to the 4 USB 3.0 > ports, you also have a firewire port, HDMI, Thunderbolt port, one input > line-in, one speaker jack and a memory card reader. Hope this helps. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Fanus > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:24 AM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update > > Hello Dane > It sounds very interesting but forgive my lack of knowledge. Am I correct > that the Mac Mini is a fairly small box with no built-in keyboard or screen, > in other words, one plugs in a keyboard and a screen if one needs one. What > other ports does the mini have? > Regards > Fanus > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:18 PM > Subject: Mac Mini Update > > > Hi! > > I’ve had my new Mac Mini for about a month now and thought I’d share some > observations with you. > > The Mac Mini is fast turning into my main computer of choice because of its > speed and power, here’s an example which I think illustrates the point > rather well. > > I’m testing a Mp3 player, I deleted all my Mp3 collection a few weeks back > so I needed to create or download some more, given I have a good FLAC > collection it made sense I guess to convert some of those, I started with > the Beatles Singles collection 4 CD set from 1962-1970 which contains more > than 40 tracks. > > Conversion was over in around 30 seconds and I was using the highest > settings with the LAME MP3 encoder to get the best I could out of it, on my > Windows desktop and other machines such a conversion task would have taken > around 20 minutes or even longer. > > I spoke to someone about this and he reckoned it would have only taken 5 > seconds or so with his Mac Pro machine and so it ought to given that his > machine contains 8 quad core i7 processors <smile>, mine only contains one > but I think the major contributing factor here is the Fusion Drive that my > Mac Mini uses, put simply a fusion drive is a 1TB standard hard drive with a > 128GB SSD drive incorporated into the design, when idle the operating system > decides what resides on the SSD and what doesn’t based on the most accessed > files, most run applications and so on. > > Now I’m not writing this post as an advertisement for Mac Mini machines as I’m > sure similar can be accomplished with Windows PC’s, I’m writing this because > I’m amazed at just how far we’ve come, encoding and creating of MP3 files > used to take hours if not many minutes not all that long ago. > > > ********** > > Dane Trethowan > grtd...@internode.on.net > Skype: grtdane12 > Phone US (213) 438-9741 > Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 > Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 > Mobile: +61400494862 > faceTime +61400494862 > Fax +61397437954 > Twitter: @grtdane > > > > > > > > > > ********** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
