> old 6700HQ I'd hardly call that old. And that's not an apples to apples comparison. The 6700HQ is a quad core part, whereas the 7500U is dual core (both of

> old 6700HQ I'd hardly call that old. And that's not an apples to apples comparison. The 6700HQ is a quad core part, whereas the 7500U is dual core (both of them feature hyperthreading, so 4 and 8 threads respectively). Given equivalent software, the 6700HQ will outperform the 7500U in multithreaded workloads.