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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonnyd" data-source="post: 391234" data-attributes="member: 31029">I got a quad 2.66 a couple of months back, and for a lot of things it's not particularly fast. Seems the more it needs the hard disks, the less you notice the power.But for some things it absolutely rips. Encoding from say AVI to Mp4 on my old G5 would run at about 11 - 15 frames per second. So a 2 hour movie would take maybe 4 hours.The Pro will do it in about 20 - 30 minutes. It does it roughly 10 x as fast.Needless to say you have to stuff it full of RAM to get the best out of it. Apples still seem to ship with about half the amount they really need to run properly.</blockquote>