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i7 not worth it in 13 macbook pro?

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iamthedudeman

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Well I need to buy a 13 pro today. It will be bought on a business contract and I get somewhat better pricing. Similar to Edu pricing.

I have to get a SSD, and it has to be Apple branded. No third party SSD.

My dilemma is that looking at the geekbench scores, the the difference between the i7 and i5 is literally not much at all.

Is it worth $300 for the 2.8 or $200 cost extra for a 2.7. Both which are avail to me.

The 2.4 i5 2435M has the same intergrated GPU as last years 2.7 i7 and this years 2.8 i7. 650/1.3.

My needs are some light autocad, light graphic work, not much video, etc. Nothing major.

The geekbench scores are almost the same for each. I added the 2.3 also for comparison.


The 2.8 i7.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/503860

The 2.7 i7.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/504210

The 2.4 i5.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/504392

The 2.3 i5.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/504546


Notice how the 2.7 only supports 8GB of ram! WTH?
http://ark.intel.com/compare/52231,53464,52224,60636

Since they all have hyperthreading and the biggest difference is the cache? I don't think the i7 is worth it do you?
 
There are plenty of posts about this here….I have an I7 if I could get I5 with SSD I would have been happier I had a SSD drive in my older Dell it was really fast
 
itegypt said:
There are plenty of posts about this here….I have an I7 if I could get I5 with SSD I would have been happier I had a SSD drive in my older Dell it was really fast
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That is my point. Because of the SSD, is the i7 worth it? The geekbench scores would indicate no.
 
itegypt said:
There are plenty of posts about this here….I have an I7 if I could get I5 with SSD I would have been happier I had a SSD drive in my older Dell it was really fast
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I searched for posts. put they were all without the SSD, not to mentioned Apple branded. There are no such posts that i can find, if there can you post it?
 
Verloc said:
Not officially supported, but does work with 16GB ram http://blog.macsales.com/9283-owc-announces-industry’s-first-16gb-ram-upgrade-for-latest-apple-macbook-pro-models
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That is good. I just saw a refurb i7 13 on Apples site. going to purchase it. Lower price than a new base model.

And I think that the example of the 13 i7 I had before might have been a bad example. I did a search and mostly all of the 13 inch i7 2.7 were over 8200 on average. They were on average 7200 for the new base 2.4. So a 1000 points might be worth it given they are the same price. And that the refurbs are most likely overstock items and not returned items because of the recent refresh.

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/503812

Thanks guys for the feedback.

Got the TBD,SSD and MStands and Ram, sold my imac and ipad2. Will not be needing them. Broke even on the deal.
 
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