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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
For $1,649 you can have an i7-based Air with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD.
I can't believe there's enough true performance difference in that $1,000-1,500 space between the Air (especially tricked-out a bit) and those two lower-cost 13" Pro models. Maybe there is and I just don't realize it, but I'm not really seeing it on paper.
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So, if you compare that against a $1,899 i7 Pro with the same RAM and SSD, the Air is 6% faster in single-core, but the Pro is 38% faster in multi-core.
OTOH, at that point, why not spend, uh, $100 less (???) and get the beefier base-model i5. It has twice the ports (there are technical reasons for the weird two-port thing, but it doesn't make it any less stupid) and comes with the same RAM and SSD standard. Only question is: is its CPU better? (Probably! But we don't really know yet.)