The i7-6660U skylake is better than the i7-7500U kabylake!?!?

[Samuelsan2001]

The i5 and i7 in the new MBP are both dual core. This is exactly what I mean by Intel creating a clusterFk of a naming convention. Most people (myself included) cannot reasonably understand what the differences are anymore.

Really you can't use google to look it up??

 

[manhattanboy]

Really you can't use google to look it up??

Just for your records here is what Google says when asking what the difference between i5 and i7 is:
"The Core i5 tends to be dual-core, although Intel does make quad-core i5s, and i7 desktop processors are quad-core, or sometimes six-core. That's one key difference between Corei5 and Core i7.Oct 27, 2016"
So even Google is wrong in stating that all i7's are quad core.
But thanks for the suggestion! It helped to prove my point about Intel's poor naming.

 

[bodonnell202]

Just for your records here is what Google says when asking what the difference between i5 and i7 is:
"The Core i5 tends to be dual-core, although Intel does make quad-core i5s, and i7 desktop processors are quad-core, or sometimes six-core. That's one key difference between Corei5 and Core i7.Oct 27, 2016"
So even Google is wrong in stating that all i7's are quad core.
But thanks for the suggestion! It helped to prove my point about Intel's poor naming.

i3, i5 and i7 are really just marketing names for "good, better, best" and they mean different things in each of their chip lines. You would have to google the actual chip model number to get any useful information about the chip.