So as the title says i ordered a Quad i5 27" Imac yesterday. Figured that would be perfect.
After coming on Macrumors and reading everybody's comments it's actually overwhelming how many people got the Quad i7 as opposed to the Quad i5.
Now i'm a sucker for the latest and greatest and because of that i always sell my computers every year or two. Depending on if there's a complete/ somewhat redesign.
Now i don't do video editing or any intensive applicatuons.
Mostly use my computer for basic stuff like browsing, downloading etc.
I do have 15000 songs and 10000 pictures and i do some light photoshoping.
So i know the i7 woudl be overkill but then so would the i5.
What i'm trying to figure out is , is it really that much better??
I know the i7 does hyperthreading ( don't really know what it all means but that's fine. I mean i know it uses 8 virtual cores )
But i'm starting to think that i might regret it eventually. If i'm upgrading might as well go for th i7??
After an educational discount the i5 quad was the perfect price , 1999$ (Canada ) but if i grab the i7 then i have to add an extra 210$. It's not big money but it's not peanuts either...
So i really don't know what to do.
It's just stagering the amount of people that chose the i7 over the i7...
And lastly will my resale value really increase with an i7 over an i5?
Thanks
After coming on Macrumors and reading everybody's comments it's actually overwhelming how many people got the Quad i7 as opposed to the Quad i5.
Now i'm a sucker for the latest and greatest and because of that i always sell my computers every year or two. Depending on if there's a complete/ somewhat redesign.
Now i don't do video editing or any intensive applicatuons.
Mostly use my computer for basic stuff like browsing, downloading etc.
I do have 15000 songs and 10000 pictures and i do some light photoshoping.
So i know the i7 woudl be overkill but then so would the i5.
What i'm trying to figure out is , is it really that much better??
I know the i7 does hyperthreading ( don't really know what it all means but that's fine. I mean i know it uses 8 virtual cores )
But i'm starting to think that i might regret it eventually. If i'm upgrading might as well go for th i7??
After an educational discount the i5 quad was the perfect price , 1999$ (Canada ) but if i grab the i7 then i have to add an extra 210$. It's not big money but it's not peanuts either...
So i really don't know what to do.
It's just stagering the amount of people that chose the i7 over the i7...
And lastly will my resale value really increase with an i7 over an i5?
Thanks