Thanks, guys. I thought it was pretty good. So, I did order it.
Eventually, planning on upgrading the RAM to 24GB, video to Radeon 5770 and processors to two quads 3.33Ghz. Also, I got 4 2tb Seagate hard drives to RAID-0 it and Intel 2nd gen ssd for system+apps. Hoping for very speedy handbrake encodings 🙂