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what's up YouTube Jonathan with Texas lunch and dinner here I'm very excited to do this video for you guys and it was a ton of you who aren't sure do you get the i-5 you get the i7 is it worth the extra money do you need the extra processing power I put this video together for you guys I hope it helps ease the burden of the decision for you guys so I'm going to quit yappin right now let's jump right into the video I'm actually going to start off with their similarities they both have a 1440 by 900 glossy LED backlit display both of which you can upgrade to a high res or anti-glare they also share 4 gigs of ddr3 memory you can upgrade them both to 8 if you want they share hyper threading which means the OS sees four cores on both models and they also share to eight to nine hour battery life now to the differences the i7 has a base clock of two point six six gigahertz while the i5 has a base clock of 2.4 gigahertz as we move on the turbo boost you guys can see right here the i7 jumps up all the way to three point three three gigahertz while the core i5 stays just a hair under three at two point nine three gigahertz moving on to the graphics card the core i7 has double the GPU power now this really isn't a factor if you're staying strictly on your MacBook doing light games email some video now where the bump and GPU power comes into play is if you're pushing an external monitor doing 3d modeling like After Effects or motion or even Photoshop if you have multiple photos open at once on to the actual benchmarks the core i7 scored 60 to 72 and Geekbench 64 while the core i5 scored 50 630 so you can see the core i5 is still a great little CPU in the Cinebench CPU test the core i7 came in at 2.5 the core i5 came in at 2.2 like I mentioned the Core i5 is still a great little workhorse in the graphics card section they both scored practically the same so this is great news for UI 5 users who want to do some moderate gaming into the handbrake test that's where you see the core i7 pull away it came in with a export of 13 minutes and 11 seconds and the core i5 had an export of 15 minutes 21 seconds now moving on to compressor you can see where the i7 jumps ahead again a minute 49 seconds and the core i5 2 minutes and 30 seconds for the last set of tests I'm going to take you guys through iMovie I imported a 1 minute HD clip the core i7 had an import of 41 seconds while the i-5 had an import of 52 seconds now moving on to the export the core i7 jumped ahead again 3 minutes and 43 seconds for the i7 while the i5 took 5 minutes and 10 seconds now a minute or two minutes does it really seem like much but if you add that up over the course of the day if I save 30 it's a day over a year that's about a hundred and thirty hours now that's a hundred and thirty hours more productivity you can do so if you're thinking about using this for your job the i7 is a way to go with that being said the i-5 is still a great little CPU alright I stayed quiet I was waiting to see how many you guys were going to start yelling at me it mentioned the hard drive because I didn't think it should be a deciding factor in the purchase for a hundred bucks more you can get the same configuration with that being said if you do this for a job if you do this for a serious hobby where you need the processing power the i7 is the way to go plus with the extra GPU boost it can help push an external monitor if you do 3d work like motion after effects even stuff like Photoshop that's the way to go for you guys now on the other side if you do email like web browsing YouTube stuff like that you can even do Final Cut Express some iMovie some slideshows in the i-5 it's still going to tear up as far as processing goes with the money you save I'd actually put that towards like an SSD some extra memory that's going to make the experience better for you guys so I hope this video helped I want to know what you guys are decided on give me a text response let me know the configuration you're getting I also like to see some videos so if you guys have any unboxings any reviews give me a video response and I'll check them out as always thank you guys for watching I hope this video helped and feel free to subscribe you