Re: What's more important for using Lightroom, memory, or vid...
Two year old laptop ... which CPU, how much Memory? Celeron, i3, AMD, etc.
Check out www.cpubenchmark.com ... you can get a feel for the speed variance between the i7 vs. i7 quad (Q) vs. i7 mobile (M) vs. i7 quad mobile (QM) chips with the mobile referring to laptop suitable and how they compare to i5, etc.
I wouldn\'t get as hung up on the extra 10-20% from one i7 to the next faster i7 ... but focus on how much of a % the jump is from your current cpu, i.e. 900% vs. 910% vs. 920%, etc. is still a huge improvement, even if it isn\'t the fastest. Making the change to the i7 will be a \"quantum leap\", i.e. 400%, 700%, 900%, etc. ... which version of i7 will be more of an \"incremental\" change, i.e. 910%, 920%, 950% etc.
The greater debate for me is (which I haven\'t decided yet) is i7M with a higher clock speed, or i7 QM with a slower clock speed.
+1 @ holding out for Ivy Bridge if it fits your timeline (reason: current mobile boards don\'t fully support USB 3.0 throughput, even though the laptop has been built with USB 3.0 ports ... Ivy Bridge mobile boards will, iirc)
HTH
Jan 14, 2012 at 09:48 AM
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