Hello Armando and Dane
While you are so helpful, maybe I can just ask for one bit of advice at this
point in time. While I am constantly seeking for portable solutions I have
this drawback that I have a sensory problem so I find it very difficult to
type on the bluetooth keyboards. Does apple have a full size keyboard where
the keys are not on the same level i.e. like the full pc keyboards where the
rows are like little steps? Even if it is a usb keyboard?
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 6:40 PM
Subject: RE: Mac Mini Update
Hello Fanus,
Not a problem. You can also join the macvoiceover list and the mac3theblind
lists. They are resourceful as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Fanus
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:39 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update
Hello Dane and Armando
Thanks a lot for the info. I admit that I was a bit lazy, I could have
downloaded the user guide but this is why this list is such a valuable
source.
Thanks to all who do not mind to answer questions from uninformed people.
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 6:34 PM
Subject: RE: Mac Mini Update
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
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