Multi-core DVD ripping/encoding on the Mac

Multi-core DVD ripping/encoding on the Mac A friend of mine likes ripping DVDs to his Mac. He’s currently on an ancient machine, and is about to upgrade to either a MacBook Pro or an iMac.
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"Nope. Basically, it's not that sort of task. For ripping, the bottleneck is the speed of the DVD drive, and the main CPU usage is directing the data traffic from the DVD drive to the hard drive.

The multiple cores will help if you try to encode the rip later."