Only go beyond option 1 if you want the larger screen, or if you do heavy, heavy media work. (I stress *heavy*) Otherwise, you won't notice enough of a performance difference. I've seen the benchmarks. They are marginal until you get into heavy encoding, decoding, processing of video, audio, etc. Even then, some would argue the differences are still marginal.
Just how heavy of a workhorse do you need?
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