a PC world fans Adam here with Gordon a laptop expert I have a question for you
that I know a lot of viewers out there have and I'm curious about myself if I
was looking to get an ultrabook with an i-5 I got my heart set on the i5 version
why would I get the i7 version is there really a benefit to upgrading to an i7
well if you actually look at the face of these or both of these are 15 watt one
is a core i5 one is a core i7 both are quad cores both quv turbo boosts both
give you hyper threading the only real difference is the i7 gives you a higher
boost clock 4.2 gigahertz versus 3.4 gigahertz okay so you like wow 800
megahertz sounds like a lot that's what I'm gonna get out of my 7 vs. ice 5 I
would argue that most people can't feel that it is real it's not like it's made
up I know people gonna say oh it's tool you ripoff it does you don't get
anything real then 800 megahertz does make a difference on very short loads
chrome like you made run a chrome script he may be a little bit faster just a
hair for some people they may notice it I would argue most people would never
notice it and when you're looking at quad core hyper threading turbo boosts
and I 5 vs. i7 it's so close I would I would say most people I 5 fantastic CPU
that maybe like our same rules apply for whiskey like you there's really not much
of a difference same thing you know you get the boost clock with i7 very short
Bercy loads it's real folks but most people can't feel the difference ok so
so maybe I should just stick with the i-5 well here's the thing Dell HP Lenovo
a sir I'm not picking on you they all know what the deal is most people go 800
megahertz this doesn't seem like a lot I'm not gonna I'm just gonna get the i-5
yeah you go to the store we try to buy on with the i-5 I want a 2 terabyte hard
drive or SSD sorry folks and I want touch screen no sorry you
want those options the big options the big SSDs the touch the pen all the cool
stuff a lot of times you could only get in AI 700 man that's how they get you
that's how they get you they know like you know what we're not gonna I guess
they could argue you don't need it you're buying an i-5 but honestly if you
bought an i-5 with touch and with a turbine SST that is everything you need
but they want to they want to get you a couple extra options so they do
segmented that way up there it's how they segment it that's how they get you
well what if I'm looking to get a big honkin gaming laptop instead of an
ultrabook there is it still worth it to upgrade
from an i5 to and I said yes thank you ain't L for the confusing lineup in big
laptops gaming laptops 15-inch laptops it actually does make a difference this
is a 45 watt coffee lekha CPU it's a fantastic CPU the the core i7 gives you
six cores turbo boost hyper-threading is a fantastic cpu it's it's just an
awesome chip the core i5 version though unlike ultrabooks where there's only
really that turbo boost difference Core i5 45 watt part quad core so quad versus
six so four cores versus six cores six cores more than four right for video
editing a lot of sort of the 3d rendering
yeah six cores is really worth it it's a lot faster than four cores okay and
gaming felt I would argue that for most people who don't need to stream and
encode on the laptop at the same time a quad core is fine we were fine with kb
lake h parts with quad cores we were happy with that an i5 quad core honestly
for most people same thing you would you'd be perfectly happy with an i5 over
an i7 with six cores for the vast majority of games I play okay but what
is are there any extra caches like the ultrabooks yeah same thing they know
like you know what you won gtx 1070 max q you want a 1080 you're not gonna get
that with an i5 you're not gonna get out easy with that we want you to pay for
the i7 dang it most of the budget you know entry level gaming laptops in fact
I 580 308s quad core 10 d 1050 TI's okay you can see your your
10 80s or 10 70s those are going to be with your i7 so yeah and you know hey
it's nice to have six cores most games don't need it but again if I had a
choice between 1070 and a 1050 TI and somebody who's buying it for me I want
that 1070 all sure I will take the trips of course as well it'll help me when I
edit my videos of my games later so very nice upgrade but yeah it definitely
worth a difference on this platform not so much there but you just can't get out
of that okay well awesome that that's good that's good advice for sure