as an electrical engineer, I'd say microsoft made a bad decision to put i7 in it. but from business stand point of view, it may be right, for most of the people, the specs in paper talks. as an end user, if you want the performance for the money, i5 won hands down. if you consider upgrade it next year, i7 may have better resell value. I don't even expect the "burst performance", it really didn't show the advantage.be77solo Wow having them both side by side and not seeing the difference is shocking. Doesn't make sense to me why MS would do such a thing.
As a Computer Engineer id say they made the traditional tradeoffs that must be made on leading devices. Every Laptop ever made is a tradeoff between performance, heat, capacities, size and weight tablets and hybrids are no different.as an electrical engineer, I'd say microsoft made a bad decision to put i7 in it. but from business stand point of view, it may be right, for most of the people, the specs in paper talks. as an end user, if you want the performance for the money, i5 won hands down. if you consider upgrade it next year, i7 may have better resell value. I don't even expect the "burst performance", it really didn't show the advantage.
when the capabilities of the 2 systems were trimmed to the same level, the trade off has gone too far. it's not that hard to figure that out.As a Computer Engineer id say they made the traditional tradeoffs that must be made on leading devices. Every Laptop ever made is a tradeoff between performance, heat, capacities, size and weight tablets and hybrids are no different.
Mine number was pretty much SF3 out of the box. No update. I guess I will do the update and retest it tomorrow.
I'll wait for the complete analysis and tuning before making a final judgment, it might be a bit presumptive at this point. This appears to be firmware settings and changeable.when the capabilities of the 2 systems were trimmed to the same level, the trade off has gone too far. it's not that hard to figure that out.