[gburdell3]

Which means that, according to Apple, it's better than the CPUs in the other laptops it's competing against. That slow i7 is typical for thin+light 13" machines. I fail to see how this is a bad thing or even sneaky marketing.

[chaos_a]

Intels marketing is more at fault here. i7 cpus range from slower 4 core 1.8ghz thin and light cpus to high end desktop 8 core 3.5ghz ones.

When the name i7 is mentioned people are more likely to think it's one of the high end desktop processors rather than the mobile processors.

[JAlexoid]

If they targeted exclusively the consumer or media editor market - sure.

But then they throw in code compilation... that's where they stop being honest.