When using the OS API transcoding (VideoToolbox), they're about the same to transcode to H.265/HVEC. (Understandable, the MacBook Pro contains Apple's "T2" chip which has an H.265 encoder that is probably the same as in the M1 chip.)

Using CPU-only x265 encoder, on the other hand...

MacBook Pro: 2:21
Mac Mini in "native code" mode: 7:32.

Okay, that seems about right. But let's try the Mac Mini in "Rosetta" mode, where it runs the x86 code translated to ARM.: 2:56.

Whaaaaa?

Okay, this is *EXCEEDINGLY* odd.

Got the new "Apple Silicon" Mac Mini. It is ridiculously fast.

My other Mac is a 1-year-old 16" MacBook Pro. A system with a 45 Watt, 8-core CPU, 32 GB RAM, and 50 Watt GPU with 8 GB RAM all to itself.

The new Mac Mini has a 20 Watt CPU+GPU with 8 GB total RAM. 8 Cores, but only 4 are "high performance."

Did a video transcode using HandBrake. 4K, 60 fps Apple ProRes, 30 seconds long.

FINALLY!

And it was delivered by a person in their personal vehicle. Not a big brown UPS truck.

Three blocks away. One possible "side quest" before logic would take him to me.

Back to my side of the forest, back on a street I saw it on previously...

*le sigh*

I bet that's it. The "To be delivered by" tacker only ever said "On The Road" before - even when it was two blocks away, it didn't even say "In Your Area". But now it's "Almost There"?

Directions fail.

I honestly wonder if their system was going to have the driver "continue through" from where they are now.?.?.?

Hey, the UPS truck is back on my street! Unfortunately, the part of my street 3/4 of a mile away, with a forest in between....

A DIFFERENT UPS TRUCK JUST DELIVERED TO MY NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE STREET! 😭

And then it completely left the neighborhood. WTF, UPS? It was literally two blocks away, now it's a mile away. (Was too busy working to see what it did in between in the last half hour.)

This delivery pattern makes no sense. (And no, I didn't just miss the delivery, it would have been delivered directly outside my home office window.)

IT JUST WENT DOWN THE LONG SIDE LOOP! AGAIN! WTF, UPS?

Yep, turned on the major street, then went a block over... I'd almost rather just have a couple-hour delivery window than this live tracking. Especially since the tracking says "To be delivered by: 9:00 P.M." - I really hope the driver doesn't just decide to leave my neighborhood and deliver elsewhere for the next 7 hours...

Dammit... Box truck just rolled up... It's Amazon Prime for my neighbor across the street. (They get 3-5 Amazon deliveries a day.)

ITS ON MY STREET! (Sadly, 1/2 mile away, with a major road in between, which I bet it will turn on to.)

"Shoot! Now you went down a road away from me! COME BACK, MR. BROWN TRUCK!"

Dammit, UPS... Your "Follow My Delivery" is excellent - except for the fact that I'm now refreshing the page once a minute now that the truck has entered my neighborhood.

"Dang! He went down a side-street!"

"Oh, now he's back heading toward me!"

"NO! Don't turn left down that long side-loop!"

This is just ridiculous. Firing a nonpartisan person HE NOMINATED for daring to speak the truth.

And the Michigan elections lack-of-certification? "Oh, if we just exclude the majority-black areas, we'll certify..."

Literal fascism in action.

Saw this on crappy social media. My reply?

"And just like the Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars, it's fiction."