Does the general consensus of HN believe the i7 option is worth the upgrade for the 13" MBP Retina? Standard software development; also been killing my air wit

Does the general consensus of HN believe the i7 option is worth the upgrade for the 13" MBP Retina? Standard software development; also been killing my air with powerpoint thanks to school lately, with the various simultaneous use of VMs to load windows programs