07-28-2012, 02:03 PM
Nobody needs anything faster, but I do a fair bit of video encoding (DVD conversion to my video library) and having a faster architecture helps me save 30-minutes to a hour a session, that is more time to spend with my family. The screen on this laptop is a MASSIVE improvement to all others, as you can change resolutions without a penalty (before, when you changed to the non-native monitor resolution, the screen looked like crap). With my aging eyes, this is well recieved.
The key thing for me is weight saving as I am traveling quite a bit later this year and 1-2 pounds here and there make a difference (I am not 22 anymore). I weighed my laptop bag on one trip and it was 28 pounds; if I can get that down to 20, that is a welcome improvement.
Just out of curiosity: the i7 chips you benchmarked, they were in a desktop, right? I ran GB on a hackintosh I built (too unstable for me) that peaked at over 16K. Really fast and high scoring, but not too portable.
The key thing for me is weight saving as I am traveling quite a bit later this year and 1-2 pounds here and there make a difference (I am not 22 anymore). I weighed my laptop bag on one trip and it was 28 pounds; if I can get that down to 20, that is a welcome improvement.
Just out of curiosity: the i7 chips you benchmarked, they were in a desktop, right? I ran GB on a hackintosh I built (too unstable for me) that peaked at over 16K. Really fast and high scoring, but not too portable.