MacBook Pro 13" i5 vs i7

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I chose the 13" due to the increased portability and chose the i7 because of the lack of a quad core processor. I figured, no matter how small the gain is from an i5 to an i7, a gain is a gain

It's coped with the majority of tasks for me and though I don't game, I do a lot of development and video encoding. I'm flooring it right now and iStat reckons my headline temperature is 49 degrees and the CPU is at 98%.

Pricing up a quad core i7 Mac Mini at the minute to speed up all of this encoding. I really wish they'd put a quad in a 13".

 

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And did you noticed any difference in noise (is it more audible?). Can you see any difference in web pages lags or even in osx windows animations?

they behave the same under normal use, only difference is the i7 is noisier and a little hotter, as the min speed for the fan is 3400.

but there is a difference in speed when you export a bunch of pix from CR2 to JPG, of course... i'd say ˜40% faster.

cheers