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Guys help 13'' i5 or i7
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Doubt it to be honest, you may get a little extra when selling it but that all depends on when you sold it.
What do you currently have?
Take the i5. Invest the 300 Euro/Dollar difference in either 8GB RAM or SSD, that will be significantly more noticeable compared to i7.
Also, the i7 machine will probably run hotter, which is never good.
Also, the i7 machine will probably run hotter, which is never good.
Thanks! I will probably order a i5!!! Do you think that parallel desktop will perform much better with the i7 than i5???
That's more RAM-based than processor-based. In fact, i5 and 8GB RAM will perform MUCH better using Parallel than an i7 using 4GB RAM. The virtual machine is created and stored in your RAM when you're using programs like Parallel, and a whole operating system can take up like 3GB of RAM. So with only 4GB you'd be operating on like a 1GB system, where as with 8GB you'd have 5GB of RAM left. Now I don't need to explain the difference in performance between 1GB RAM and 5GB RAM
If that's not convincing enough, if you buy an i5 and configure it with a 500GB hard drive (compared to 320GB default) and 8GB RAM, it will cost $1449, where as the stock i7 costs $1499. And those build-to-order options are from Apple, you can pick those upgrades up aftermarket for like 50% less.
I got the i7 with an SSD. No complaints here. The SSD is more noticeable for speed improvements but the i7 process things in a breeze duh. lol
duh. lol