Time spent making a DVD.

[SLarsonIH at aol.com]

I've got a maxed out 8600, which I love, but the more I deal with trying to 
make DVD's (just got the 105), and how much of a pain it is trying to use OS9 
and X on the same machine, I'm starting to think that I'd be better off with 
two machines. As I understand it, when you make a DVD, the machine is tied up 
doing importing, encoding and burning. Is that true?

Let's say that you want to take a show (1 hour + commercials) that you taped, 
import it, remove commercials, encode and then burn, roughly, how much time 
would you say that the computer is sitting there working, that you can't 
really use it? I'm guessing, at least 2 or 3 hours.

So, that got me to thinking. Since the computer is going to be tied up a lot 
anyway, why try to kludge the whole thing on my 8600. So, I did a little 
looking at specs, and it seems to me that the Sawtooth is the way to go. 
Oldest (cheapest) and AGP. It seems they all have 100MHz bus. What about the 
Yikes or Yosemite? Is there another newer model I ought to consider? I have a 
second monitor already, so that is covered.

Are there faster processors out there for them? Can a take a Dual 1.25 out of 
a newer model and stick it in, and have it work, or do I need to get a newer 
Dual processor model? Anybody taken a Sawtooth or newer model and put it in a 
86/9600 case, etc. Thoughts anyone?

STeve