2011 2.2 MBP is it good for AV production?

Are the new 2011 MBP's good for AV production?  I've heard that some producers are having problems and having to return them. Any comments?

Make sure you get the15"/17" 2.3 i7 quad core. You may need all of your processing distributed over the 4 cores and the graphics processor with 1GB if you are doing cpu/gpu intensive work.....in order to avoid the high temperatures seen on the 13 inch 2.7 and to a degree on the 15 inch 2.0GHZ.
The 13 inch has a 2.7 i7 with two physical and four virtual cores and no dedicated gpu....it gets hot video rendering and h.264 conversions. The 15 inch 2.0Ghz with dedicated gpu with 256MB is better but not ideal. The 2.0 Ghz has a smaller cache than the 2.2 and 2.3.

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