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Does anyone know the difference between the i5 and i7 mobile? I have looked around and it seems the desktop i5 vs the desktop i7 had quite a bit of difference - one of them being hyperthreading wasn't enabled on the i5. If I look at Intel's comparison I don't see anything turned off for the mobile i5 - so other than processor speed why would one go for the mobile i7? Also - I did my best to match the processor but there were 2 i5 2.4 Ghz and I don't know which one Apple uses - the comparison doesn't show any difference other than clock speed. If these are the wrong processors I'd like to know that too.
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Umm, hyper-threading definitely comes with both i5 and i7 processors, along with TurboBoost! The main difference, in my opinion anyways, is the the i7 has a higher stock speed along with a higher maximum turboboost speed. There is also 4mb of L3 cache instead of only 3mb on the i5.