Posting HD: How Much Power Do You Need for Speed?
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/News/Feature/Posting-HD-How-Much-Power-Do-You-Need-for-Speed-40122.htm

Franklin, Marc
Event DV
2008

Abstract:

When working with HDV footage in post, your computer is constantly trying to compile editable frames from frames that include only a portion of their own frame information, and thus needs to work a lot harder to process HDV natively than DV. Which raises the question: How powerful a system do you need to make HDV postproduction as smooth as DV editing is today?