ESATA readers (or just internal SATA readers) would be faster, but if you're using slower/cheaper cards you could end up having a good reader and cards bottlenecking your transfer rates.
We can discuss benchmarks between our individual systems but because we're not all going to be running the same hard drives, ram, card readers and cards we're not really going to have accurate benchmarks. Though it's always fun to compare. :p
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and... in spite of the price I find myself wondering how much quicker the i7-980x processor would handle the conversion.
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It would likely being significantly faster going on the spec's alone, I have not tested it though. Based solely only the increases that processor has shown and because lightroom is multi-core I'm sure it would be faster. That said I'd overclock that 920 long before I dropped $1000 on the 980x. (
NOTE: Overclocking is not recommeded other than my personal opinion as it will void your warranty and could destroy your system if it is done improperly do not attempt this if you don't know what you're doing. /endthecovermyrearstuff) :)
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Video editing reviews show a significant decrease in transcoding video files. For photography, these large batch processes are about as close as we come to an even comparison of processing power.
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Video rendering is still far to different to judge how well a processor will batch simply because video rendering will be rendering a much larger number of files at once (remember video runs a 24-30 frames per second) a few minutes of video can be 1000's of frames. Also they can be using more or less of the processor depending on what they are rendering each frame with as far as special effects and such.
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I don't think that all because Apple uses Intel, then now Adobe will create around the Intel chip. I think it is in the chipsets just as much as the processors. Then to add to the bottle necks, you have transfer rates between devices via bus speeds, overheads of devices, overheads of software, physical limitations of devices, etc.
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Completely agree, a good processor coupled with a bad/slow chipset, ram, hard drive, bus speed all will definitely kill speed. Lightroom does support multiple cores (up to 8 last I heard) but Adobe has said many times they do not code their code for any specific processor, that would just hurt their bottom line. Not to mention even Apple is rumored to be in talks with AMD all the time.
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