Compressor 2 Slow....

Ooops... Posted this in the DVD Studio Pro discussion, got no response... now I know why. LOL
Hey All,
I don't know if this has been addressed here already... so forgive me if I'm repeating something....
Is it just me or is Compressor 2 slower than 1.xx? I'm compressing the same type of content at a much slower rate than I was able to with previous versions of Compressor.
I have recently upgraded to DVDSP 4 from ver. 2. It really seems that the new compressor takes much longer to compress the same material. Am I missing something here?
Thanks!

Thanks Mikey!
I'll check out the Optibase.
Man... It really is slow. 15 hours to encode what used to take me 5. Same content, same length of video, same VBR 2 Pass Settings.... and according to what I've read here, I'm not the only one.
Real bummer... Hopefully Apple will address the issue at some point. I'm going to install Compressor 1 on another machine and use that in the interim
Again, thanks for your help.
Cheers!
G5 Dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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