Was getting tired of waiting on reviews myself, called both Apple Stores in my area, but now they are all sold out of the Ultimate versions. *sigh*
My wife has a base model so I could test the difference between the two.
I know for email, browsing, word, etc the i5 is fine.
I will game occasionally on the machine, playing LoL which is CPU intensive my wife's i5 does hit 100% cpu usage), I will occasionally do video editing, i will occasionally do coding/compiling.
I am willing to get the i7, the little extra money for it bothers me not at all, however I don't want to cook my lap either, and I dont want to have 1 hour less battery life over my wife's i5 either under normal usage.
I fully understand if i am making the processor go to 100% of course the battery is going to last shorter, and its going to get warmer on the i7. Because it working harder than the i5....
But when I am browsing the internet, checking email I dont want the i7 to be noticeably warmer / battery noticeably shorter during those times.
Also like to see tests with the exact same things be ran on them at the same time.
All I would need to make my choice is
An i5 ran for x (1,2,5 hours) amount of time with x application (Netflix or a Game or Video/Movie) running.
an i7 ran for same "x"amount of time with same "x" application running.
Give me the temps. (Doesn't even have to be exact, barely warmer, considerably warmer will suffice.)
Give me the battery life. (Started at 100% i5 is at "x" and Started at 100% and i7 is at "x" after running the same app(s).
But no one on the entire planet apparently has done or is willing to do this.
I was going to do it myself but dang Apple store sold out of i7's.