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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lclev" data-source="post: 1660872" data-attributes="member: 307555">There will be a definite difference.  Most video editing and encoding software uses GPU acceleration if it is available.  iMovie does and I use Premiere Pro which definitely does.  If you check out the link Nick provided the video explains it better.  It is worth the cost difference.  If you plan to take a serious jump into these areas nothing will frustrate you more than a slow computer.  In the "good old days" encoding meant sending out what you hoped was your finished product and going home, leaving your computer to encode over night. You could arrive the next day and finding out there was a mistake and that meant re-encoding.  Now what took all night take minutes to an hour depending on complexity.  Lisa</blockquote>