I rip mostly everything to the hard drive with mac the ripper, then encode. Encoding wasn't the only reason I went with a mac pro, but its a hell of an upside. If you only have a limited amount of things to encode you will finish encoding everything eventually with either machine, and once you do, what then? Mac pros aren't cheap, especially after adding in a screen and ram. Is the extra cost/space worth it to you? Well thats something for you to decide. (4 is a bit flaky, though it seems to be related to using the same 2 hard drives for each encode). Plus its usable for other tasks while doing so. The mac pro does 3-4 encodes at one time each faster than what the mini could do one in. On average it would be able to do about 6-8 a day, which would pretty much make the machine unusable for anything else. Doing one handbrake encode at good settings for apple tv basically brought the system to its knees and would take 3-4 hours each. I had a mac mini 2.0 ghz, which isn't too far off from an imac since both are laptop parts. One of the things i have been working on over the last number of months is encoding 300+ dvds for use on the apple tv, since a scrolling menu is a whole lot easier than going through stacks of movies. The mac pro is a monster when it comes to multitasking. Its that you can encode 3-4 things at once where the mac pro shines. Handbrake is limited in how many cores it uses for the encoding. The advantage of the mac pro over the imac isnt so much the increased speed on one encode.
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