First post here and I'm very glad to have found this community !
My first question on this forum is related to the encoding speed. I own many Macs as I have a tendency to push each machine to its limits by upgrading its components / software and, eventually, each one ends up having a particular task.
Which brings me to my encoding setup.
Right now, I'm using a black MacBook 2.4 Ghz w/ 4Gig of Ram, external hard drives for sources, internal hard drive as a recipient to the final encoding and it's quite fast (I can encode a two hour movie w/ high profile settings in less than 8 hours, sometimes 6 hours if 90 minutes long).
Also, I have a 2003 MDD G4 (2x1.25Ghz) w/ 2 Gig of Ram but the encoding is very slow on this one (I'm wondering if the PPC version of Handbrake addresses the fact that the G4 has two processors). Obviously, this is very old tech so I'm not expecting miracles but at least more than an average of 2 frames / second and I'd like to hear from those of you who have older (pre-G5) encoding setups.
Thank you,
Andrew.
