Hey guys, I am the original producer of the YouTube video. You should check out my Diablo 3 video, a real world example of throttling where I demonstrate the frame rate dropping by almost half, doing absolutely nothing for 5 minutes... just leaving the characters there idle. The frame rate becomes unplayable when action is taking place.
My argument is that the i7 model is ill-conceived. Ideally, I believe there should have been an i3 model up to 256GB of storage 4GB of RAM, and an i5 model up to 512GB and 8GB of RAM for the price of the base i7 model. I see no point to paying the extra cost of the i7 processor... the only i7 model that makes any sense is the option to have 512GB of storage. Something that's definitely not work nearly $2K.
And this isn't trolling. This is pragmatism... someone explain to me the benefit of the 256GB i7 model... anyone.