Question on specs for 15" vs. 17" laptops

I need to get a new laptop and am considering between the 15" and 17" models. I'd like the 17" size, but I wanted a top-of-the-specs machine and it looks to me like the 17" model has some lower specs. Am I mistaken? For example, I see the 17" goes up to 2.53 GHz and has an Intel core i5, while the 15" goes to 2.66 GHz with an Intel core i7. Why would that be? And, assuming I'm reading the Apple Store web page correctly, does it matter - is the difference noticeable? Also, is the battery life about the same for them? Also, the 15" has an SD card slot, while the 17" has an ExpressCard/34 slot. Why are they different, and are there adapters to put SD cards into the ExpressCard/34 slot? Lastly: will getting the SSD instead of the regular hard drive significantly improve battery time or reduce heating?
thank you,
Mike

The i7 processor is also available for the 17" as an option and whether or not you need it purely depends on the usage scenario you have in mind.Yes the difference is noticeable if you are working with cpu intensive applications . Apple proposes the same battery life for the i5 17" and the i7 15" .If you opt for the i7 in the 17" you might actually get lower battery time then you would with the 15".There are plenty of super cheap usb card readers you can use .yes an SSD will not only increase your performance significantly but it will also do it rudely .. I have one in mine and I can never go back to the hdd technology now .
I have been where you were when I was trying to decide between the two . And I have picked the 15" i7 because to me it represented the sweet spot.I got it with the 1680x1050 high res screen which is pretty ok for any of my needs and the i7 is a beast to be honest . So by choosing the 15" form factor I also ended up with a rather portable device .For another few hundred bucks sticking in an SSD drive was just the icing on the cake .

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Hope I answered all your questions.
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Computer specs for nice 3D rendering/ after effects rendering and video rendering in general ?

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What I bought around January 2014 was a factory refurbished ASUS G750JW that was originally at BestBuy for about $1250 I found for $900. I got the 8GB unit and immediately upgraded it to 24 GB of RAM and then cloned the OS on the lousy 1 TB 5400 rpm drive to a 128 GB Samsung 840. And then installed a 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro in the second drive bay. This then made it a wonderful editing machine. In the process of many edits on this machine I found the some USB3 Flash memory drives worked absolutely great as read-only devices for holding the Project Files and the media. Unfortunately the PNY USB3 Flash Drives that I originally used which had great read speeds which originally had 180 MB/second read speeds were changed and now are lousy I am still looking for a replacement that will test as well or better than my original three PNY turbo, later versions were lousy
Both Asus with their newer G751, MSI with their GT 70 and 80 series and Lenovo with the Lenovo Y50-70 Laptop - 59421859 offer great possibilities.

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