“Yup. How much processing speed do home users really need? Not nearly as much as they think...”
I agree, however when I buy a Blu-Ray disc I rip it and import it into iTunes.
To play the movie it’s easy to grab a small remote, browse through 500+ movies and press play. NO searching for a particular disc. Easy and fast.
It takes quite a bit of processing, however. The last movie I imported took a total of eight hours, seven with the processor at full-tilt.
I am one of the exceptions.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if you are throttling on your disk. Next time you rip a disk, take a look at all your cores.I've got 8 cores on my box. If at least 4 of them aren't at 100%, whatever I'm doing is likely I/O bound, not CPU bound. I have a few scripts that I run to process data that will actually max out all 8 cores, but they are really scalable processes.