do you think its worth paying for a i7 or will i5 be fast enough im looking at refurbished 15 inch t

Darren peter wright

do you think its worth paying for a i7 or will i5 be fast enough im looking at refurbished mac pro laptop 15 inch they are 1500 rpm,  i mainly use logos so anyone know

 

Mark Smith

Darren, generally speaking an i5 with a faster clock speed will probably outperform an i7 with a slower clock speed in Logos because at the present Logos only makes use of at most 4 threads during indexing. The extra processor power of an i7 might help with multi-tasking, but clock speed is still going to set the speed for Logos itself. I don't know what i5 processors are available for the Mac and there are a lot of variances between versions, so that could come into play.

Future-proofing is a guess since I haven't heard anything about Logos' future plans to take advantage of more processors/threads in the CPU. I think you'll find folks here who are using i5 processors and are very happy with their performance.

Remember that HD speed and total memory make a difference in speed as well.