You and I both! I amazed at Apples lack of acknowledgment towards this issue. They think you just have massive storage arrays laying around to transcode this footage to AIC or Apple ProRes. I think they forget that one of the reasons people are going avchd in the first place is because of how efficient it compresses and the lower disk space usage than the competing codecs.
Amazing that they sell 8 core Macs and of all the computers that could properly handle a few of these streams my 2 core pc Laptop can handle it better than their 8 core Mac Pro.
Hopefully, they are reading these forums. They better get moving.