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Originally Posted by Chewy734
Nothing wrong with the i5 chip. I have it on my MacBook Pro and it works great. Is the i7 better? Yes, much better. But, the bottleneck will most likely be the hard-drive and memory anyways. If you don't go SSD, make sure you get a 7200 rpm SATA 6gbps hard-drive. I wouldn't recommend under 8gb of memory for editing photos/video. I have 16gb on my MacBook Pro with the dual-core i5, SSD and it flies... literally night and day difference with everything.
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yeah, I agree, the regular hard drives are a real bottleneck.
And that's a huge issue with a lot of laptops, is the 5200RPM is the generic go to hard drive in almost all laptops.
If it's not labeled on a description, always assume it's a 5200.
I wouldn't buy a computer anymore that doesn't have at least a 7200RPM unit inside. It does make a massive difference. And as you said, it could make or break the use of what chip you have installed.