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is 2.6 Ghz worth the extra $250 to have more speed?
Will it significantly reduce lag in a game like minecraft?
Personally no i don't think it will make that much of a different. they are both quad core and have 6mb of cache. But i also choose to go with the non retina model when i upgraded to this year pro line and added the RAM myself and changed out the HD to a 256 SSD.
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Going from 2.3 to 2.6 is $100 in the base model.
Are you talking about the upgrade from 2.6 to 2.7 for $250 more?
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2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz [Add $100.00]
2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz [Add $350.00]
The 2.3 to 2.6 upgrade is a much better deal than the 2.6. to 2.7 upgrade obviously. Since you don't have the option after the fact to upgrade the CPU, it might be a good idea to bump it up to 2.6 for $100 but another 0.1 for $250 still doesn't make sense.
Are you talking about the upgrade from 2.6 to 2.7 for $250 more?
Copied from the base model configuration page:
2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz [Add $100.00]
2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz [Add $350.00]
The 2.3 to 2.6 upgrade is a much better deal than the 2.6. to 2.7 upgrade obviously. Since you don't have the option after the fact to upgrade the CPU, it might be a good idea to bump it up to 2.6 for $100 but another 0.1 for $250 still doesn't make sense.
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Unless you're doing a ton of video or photo editing you won't notice a difference. Not worth the extra cash
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Not worth upgrading the CPU unless you run processor intensive apps (like editing huge photos or running mathematical applications). The RAM upgrade is definitely worth it though!
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CPU upgrades won't really address lag in a game like Minecraft. Lag is frequently a result of a network connection or when the game needs data that is on the disk and not in RAM. Having an SSD in a rMBP will help prevent much of the latency that comes from reading and writing to the disk. Upgrading the RAM would be more likely to reduce lag in such applications.
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