Mac book Pro i5 or i7 ? Performance difference major or minor ?

Hi folks ,
Hope every one is doing great
I have to purchase a Mac book pro 13 inch . But confusion I am having is between i5 and i7 processor . I ll be using my laptop mainly for surfing , movie watching, and Video editing ( FCP , Adobe premiere pro ) . i7 is expensive than i5 and right now my budget is not permiting me to buy i7 until or unless there it is EXTREMELY important to buy a i7 mac book as there are will be huge performance issue . From what I read I got to know that there wont be huge difference since they both are using dual core processor and there is no option of hyper threading in i7 either . Also there aint any difference of graphics card as they both use the cpu inbuilt intel graphics card. So one thing which I am considering in to buy i5 and then spend some money on expanding RAM which will be cheaper , I suppose .(4GB to 8Gb). Will that be fine?
So just wanted to know from some one who has used i5 mac book pro and ran editing software (or any one who knows about it) . Did you guys face any glitches or are they very minor to be noticeable. I am fine with extra time taken in rendering and exporting , thats not the issue for me . Only issues is that videos shouldnt lag or appear jerky in the timeline because then it will hamper editing experience .
I know Imac in same rate is the best option for editing and nothing can beat that . But I couldnt go for it because of portability issue as I have to travel a lot .
Hope to hear expert comments from you guys.
Cheers !
Anurag

I have been editing with Final Cut for many years, on many different Macs. Currently using Final Cut Express v4 on a 2.66GHZ Core2Duo MacBookPro with 8GB RAM. Ditto on my 3.06GHZ Core2Duo iMac with 8GB RAM. It runs really well on both computers. An i5 based Mac will do even better.
The amount of RAM definitely makes a difference if you are using things like Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom, iMovie, Final Cut and similar apps. They will run in 4GB RAM but they run a lot better with 8GB RAM or more. If I were configuring a new Mac to run these kinds of programs, 8GB RAM would be my suggested minimum.

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