Got my IMac just before Christmas and whilst I've been playing WOW and testing everything as much as I can I seem to be really happy with mine. Was slightly depressed when I discovered I had the GA32N DVD along with a noisy 'Grumbling' hard drive. But overall I'm pretty happy with the system.
However came across this thread and decided to pull off a few Rips to check my system. Tried with Handbrake and didn't appear to have the problem as mentioned in the last post where it takes 40mins for HB to analyse a disk. Mine take a few minutes lets me select the track I want to Rip and then runs on through, I was pulling off a few Christmas DVD's Scrooged, Muppets Christmas Carol etc for over Christmas. Took around half an hour for each, using the AppleTV Preset.
Then thought I'd try the RipIt method to see how long a test disc would be, managed to pull off a screenshot around the 50% mark just to show my model and the Rip time, seemed to take around the 15min mark for my GA32N using my DireStraights Crimbo pressie concert @1 hour 30min length.
Doesn't seem to be as bad as many others have noticed but I could just be reading my stats all wrong, just wondering if anyone else was having a similar experience??
Need to update signature but specs: Imac 27" i7 2.93 4gb ram 1tb Hard-drive.
Update: Copied both the accompanying CD's of the concert, each 45 & 48 mins in length and each both took around 7 mins to rip. Hope it might be of help.