Quote Originally Posted by NevBull View Post
The processor does not do the hard work - the hard drive/graphics card combination are where the server's performance comes from.

Nev.
not true - with recent macs - 2009 - and 10.6.x every core has been useful-

and higher speed macs are able to do more layers-

All movie decoding is done on the cpus-

for hidef the more cpus and faster processors the better.

and movie playback uses as many cpus as are available.