Is not that the world is bigger than me. tomshardware have great comparisson of 8-16gb ram benchmarks.
The point is that, if you have a macbook pro, according to my perspective, buying it 16gb ram is worthless because the processor cant keep up to it.
YOU CAN BE THE PRO AS THE HELL U WANT (or call it as u like), but, for me, spending between 60 and 400 bucks just for waiting on 1 hour and 50 min of encoding its worthless. the program will work as fast as the processor and the arquitechture of the management of proc/ram can do.
if i had the bucks to have a xeon 8 core, 16gb justifies, otherwise, its just a troll conduct and who has it bigger thing.
You must be stupid or a n00b.
the CPU is going to sleep almost all the time, the ONLY time the CPU is actually doing consistent work, is in video rendering or editing. and in that case, 16GB of RAM would be amazing. especially considering how big HD movies are...
what the hell are you encoding that only takes an hour an a half?
sounds like you're muxing, or converting, NOT encoding.
H.264@1080P takes roughly 3 days to encode... depending on hardware of course.