Thanks guys.
CS 6 is delivering as I expected it would.
When I made the decision to switch to premiere it was
ultimately with the fact that CS 6 release was just
around the corner with needed improvements from CS 5.5
sure, there will be issues for everyone, in my case, see
the post about anamorphic sd footage. Also the audio
had some odd sounding glitches in unrendered view occasionally
but was otherwise perfect when rendered.
But all in all it was rock solid, never crashed and
performed to expectation.
Clients like that there was no transcoding time involved as did I.
Source footage for todays session was all native Canon5D
with dual sound from a sound devices 744T. (synced with pluraleyes from my cs 5.5 edit bay)
MacPro Octocore (early 2009)
16GB Ram
Quadro 4000
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Black-Magic Multibridge Extreme w driver 9.5.1
RAID5 fibre-channel array.