I5 versus i7 for development workstation

I'm trying to design a new development workstation that will be used for local SQL Server development some of the time.
The shop goes back and forth between recommending the Intel i5 and i7 processors.  The main difference for my purposes is going to be that while they are both four-core processors, the i7 also supports hyperthreading so it can work as eight cores.
For local development purposes, do I care?  As soon as I'm actually doing development on a remote server, of course it doesn't matter at all.  And my IO configuration is never going to resemble a big corporate SAN - I may have nothing but two local
SSDs, actually, so my IO may be better, unless I intentionally buy a slower rotating disk or attach one via USB (pretty wild, isn't this all!?!)  And few companies are likely to want me to have real copies of their 100gb++ databases so the data
will never be exactly right, either. 
So I think I've just talked myself into saving $100 and a little electricity by going with the i5!
Anyone disagree?
Thanks,
Josh

Hi Josh,
To be honest, if saving $100 is of particular importance then running i5s against i7s on a development box should not particularly be a great handicap to you. Having the same number of logical cores would be useful for parallelism testing of your queries
(and you same the numbers across each are the same), but obviously in these instances you should also have similar data sets so that your query plans are created the same (since these are based on the histogram distributions). In other words make sure you
have enough representive storage and memory, but i5s will be fine.
Regards,
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