Reply To: MacBook Air for travel

Jack MacD;352 wrote: What’s the advantage of the i7 vs i5 David?

Jack,

The biggest difference is that the i7 has hyperthreading while the i5 does not. So, while the speed is essentially the same clock-for-clock, the i7 will have twice the virtual cores, making it superior for heavily multi-threaded applications like image editing.

I’d go the i7.

David