&gt; Speaking conservatively, a 25% difference in performance would turn an 8 hour wedding edit into 10 hours.<p>That&#x27;s only true if all 8 hours are 100% spent waiting on the machine, which doesn&#x27;t seem likely. This doesn&#x27;t seem like a CPU-bound task. Most of the time is probably spent by the human actually looking at the photos and making decisions.