MacBook Air (2013) i7 or i5 for Aperture 3

Question

Hi,
I'm willing to trade my current MacBook Pro for a new MacBook Air and there are some points on which I need some advice. I'm an Aperture user (120 GB of pictures), use Office/iWork and sometimes Adobe CS5.
1/ Do I really need i7 or i5 is enough?
2/ How can I manage the fact of not having my Aperture library on my laptop? Are NAS solutions fast enough?
Thanks for answering

Answer 1

“faster is always better………that statement is an OUTRIGHT UNTRUTH,…is a fallacy which presupposes the untenable position that:
A: in all instances anyone and everyone will or would want to choose a few seconds faster processing time rather than 2-4 hours longer battery life.
As a former dirtbiker, motorcycles which are NOT FAST are the 100% choice due to their low gearing in hill climbing, where speed is BOTH not wanted, and UNDESIRABLE.
Your incapacity to see something glaringly obvious that there are “hill climbing” MAC USERS who 100 times out of 100 would far prefer 2-4 hours longer battery life over 2-4 seconds faster processing time.
The absolute hardcore fact stated above that - never HAS there been, nor never SHALL there be any computer that is "future proofed",  ……is not a claim rather a truth both time tested, and always has been a fact over the decades. IN FACT is is impossible to go back 5 years ago and buy the most expensive fastest CPU consumer computer and say “this is still up to date/ acceptable".
DWB above is logical, and his statements are correct,….so are mine. Without ANY QUESTION nobody can intelligently or logically say “faster is always better”.  ....It is not, ...it is proven not true....., it is undeniably NOT the case, both in fact, in logic, and in reasoning by reasonable people who look upon all facts.
I logically forward that a TANK , though much slower than, say a Porche, is “far better” under circumstance where the attributes of a tank are needed, ….survivability, to “last/ withstand”……..
Logically so,  longer battery life is such an instance, …….ever the moreso given stated BENCHTESTS, the I7 is “only very negligibly faster”
Geekbench: i5: 5868, i7: 6287 (+7%)
Handbrake: i5: 12min12s, i7:12min5s (-1%)
Cinebench: i5: 11.13fps, i7:11.54fps (+4%)
iMovie: i5: 5min1s, i7: 4min56s (-2%)
PhotoShop: i5: 68.7s, i7:57.4s (-17%)
You have said ---Bigger, faster is always better. It always has been and always will be. You buy what works for you and what you can afford. That does not change the fact that bigger, faster is better.
There is no logic IN that statement, and it is patently untrue. I can afford to buy ANYTHING, but chose the I5 because
A: it has longer battery life,..
B: therefore will have after time a LOWER CHARGE CYCLE than the I7 (important!) and
C: bench tests show very very small difference in actual program speeds.
Your untenable illogical claim implies that everyone either DOES or SHOULD desire “the fastest” (cost being irrelevant) but that is both untrue and contraindicated for those desirous of a considerably longer battery life, which itself “is better”
Everything has its place and its own design for its own reasons, and to blankly, without logic, or sensibilities make a blanket inaccurate statement that “faster is always better, period”,  cannot be enjoined as either true, logical, reflective of real world desires (of longer battery life), or reflective of those who  would trade 4 seconds processing time for 4 hours LESS battery life.