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"Peter Duniho" wrote:

Well, AFAIK the video cards don't have anything to do with the
encoding/processing of converting DV into a video DVD.

You could use a little updating (but not much...this is relatively recent).

more specifically, the video card in my G5 doesn't get involved in
the processing. Thus any attempt to wiggle out of the claim of
"many times faster" is invalid.


Regardless, I find the term "many" to be ambiguous enough to give "Gig"
whatever wiggle room he needs. It is certainly true that his Alienware
computer is at least twice as fast as anything Apple is offering so far

twice many

And I'd like to see proof of your assertion


(though as they introduce more Intel-based Macs, that will cease to be
true), and one need not come anywhere close to 10 minutes to burn a 60
minute DVD to prove "many" times faster. I doubt any Apple can do a DVD in
better than real-time

well, you yourself need some updating.

My not-top-of-the-line G5 will process AND burn a 60 minute DVD in about 40
minutes. I haven't tried to make this faster by fiddling with various settings.
This is fast enough for me. :-)

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