I5 MBP with retina or i7 MBP for iOS development

I'm a beginner iOS developer. I need to upgrade my Mac (mid 2009 model) as it becomes so slow since upgrading to lion and even slower with mountain lion
I'm going to use the new Mac for Xcode and photoshop.
My question here. Shall I buy an i5 MBP with retina display or an i7 MBP (non retina) as both are same price.
The think the only difference (other than the display and is the slim body) is the HDMI port in the retina model and DVD drive in the non-retina model
I live outside the US and my friend is going to buy it for in two weeks and I won't be able to return it if I didn't like it so please choose carefully
Thank you in advance

Doing some additonal web research I found the following site. Using that data, I was able to pull the Geekbench performance results my current MBP (late 2011) and the two MBP's being considered. Below is a cut & paste of the information I compiled in a spreadsheet.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
Next question -- does the benchmarks take into account the speed difference of the HDD vs SDD drives? As you can see, there is very minimal performance difference to go non-retina to a retina model. On average a 6.64% performance increase for a 28.60% price increase.
Those percentages might change if the benchmark tests don't include hard drive speeds. But as it stands, if we attribute 6.64% of the costs difference to performance since that is how much increase you get going rMBP vs MBP, then there is an approximate 22% premium (or $220) for the retina display and more compact design (along with all the various changes that go w/ retina -- no user upgradeability, addition of HDMI port, lack of optical drive, firewire and ethernet, etc). If you plan on buying an external super-drive ($79) the premium crawls to near 30% more.
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Macbook Model Info
32-bit Single
% Faster
32-bit Dual
% Faster
64-bit Single
% Faster
64-bit Dual
% Faster
MBP
Late 2011
i5 2.4ghz
2265
N/A
4501
N/A
2462
N/A
5004
N/A
MBP
Mid 2012
i5 2.5ghz
2529
11.66%
5106
13.44%
2781
12.96%
5694
13.79%
rMBP
Late 2013
i5 2.4ghz
2660
5.18%
5473
7.19%
2930
5.36%
6197
8.83%
16.84%
20.63%
18.32%
22.62%
Macbook Model Info
Average
Cost
% More
MBP
Late 2011
i5 2.4ghz
N/A
$999
MBP
Mid 2012
i5 2.5ghz
12.96%
$999
0.00%
rMBP
Late 2013
i5 2.4ghz
6.64%
$1,399
28.60%
19.60%

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