Speed question

[931069]

How much of a speed increase would I get in iMovie if I upgraded from a iMac 21.5 2010 base model to a 13' rMBP with i5 and 8GB RAM?

 

[yjchua95]

How much of a speed increase would I get in iMovie if I upgraded from a iMac 21.5 2010 base model to a 13' rMBP with i5 and 8GB RAM?

In general usage, a lot. Because the rMBP has an SSD.

iMovie, quite a noticeable increase, because of Intel QuickSync in Haswell.

 

[snaky69]

How much of a speed increase would I get in iMovie if I upgraded from a iMac 21.5 2010 base model to a 13' rMBP with i5 and 8GB RAM?

The first scores 6356 on geekbench, the second scores 8626, a roughly 35% increase in raw processing power.

You'd see that difference in CPU heavy tasks such as video and photo rendering, finite element analysis and working with very large datasets.

 

[Crzyrio]

How much of a speed increase would I get in iMovie if I upgraded from a iMac 21.5 2010 base model to a 13' rMBP with i5 and 8GB RAM?

If you just want a simple speed upgrade, I would install an SSD in your iMac. Guarantee the difference will be more than satisfactory.