Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i7 is a real beast. Unless you are doing heavy editing of photos or videos, it is overkill for most uses, even for photos. If you use your laptop as away-from-main-machine thing, get the i5. Even for light editing, it's plenty fast enough. OTOH, if you use your laptop as your main machine, then get the i7. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Akhil Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm in the market for a new laptop to replace my 7 year old IBM Thinkpad > (Pentium 4 Mobile at 2GHz, XP Pro). Still running well, BTW. > > Looking at 13 inch laptops, my preferred size, with i5 processors I note > that some manufacturers offer an upgrade to an i7 for about the cost of a > Leica lens hood. This is very tempting but I am concerned about the > reduction in battery life when using the more powerful chip. > > Can any list members shed some light on the CPU power vs. battery run-time > trade offs involved? I have of course, asked the manufacturers' tech > support > but never could get a satisfactory answer. > > As always, user feedback and comments are welcomed. > > Regards, > Akhil > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]