Hi, IMHO, the i7 is for Windows-Games only, one of the best features of i7 is, that one core can speed up more than others. which is helpful for gaming on windows, or other tasks which can only run on one CPU core. the other thing is, with i7 comes 1xUSB3 on the X220 greetings On 10/27/2013 01:45 PM, ken wrote: > TIA for responses, favorable and unfavorable. -- Florian Reitmeir E-Mail: florian@reitmeir.org Tel: +43 650 2661660