So, I just purchased the first episode of Lost via iTunes. The other night I bought a season pass to the Office. That meant that two episodes came down at once - AFTER upgrading to the 'spiffy' iTunes 7.

Only, somehow 'herding' those little 0s and 1s to my machine was a total FEAT for the spiffy new iTunes 7.0. In fact, at points I couldn't EVEN watch the Office and download it at the same time - because my CPU was getting maxed out. Seriously, talk about making me grumpy. I don't care IF it is DRM-ed, just give me the damn file. That should take, TOPS, 7% of my CPU on a sustained basis.

Now I'm downloading a single episode of Lost, and iTunes is using > 50% of my CPU to pull it down. (Good thing Apple is releasing dual-core Xeon workstations.... people will need those to watch and download at this rate...)

iDiots.