Again, thanks everyone for their input. For myself, I'm not going to be doing much, if any, hardcore 3d rendering--I don't think. Will the throttling issues affect me in the Adobe CC programs, is my big question. From what I'm starting to gather, I don't think it will. Possibly in Premiere if I am rendering large video files or something. I'm also starting to see from posts that they feel the i7 model will be an easier sell and hold it's value better when I go to sell it in a couple of years. In posts so far, I'm not seeing a significant difference in battery between the i5/i7, but havent seen enough info on that topic yet. It looks like the i7 does heat up more, but many are posting this isn't an issue for them. Ugh.....still confused.
What I would love to know are some real world tests between the 8gb RAM i5 and i7 in Adobe. How long would each take to process 100 RAW images? Do you feel the pen feature reacts any differently between the 2 when drawing in Illustrator?---Stuttering? Lag? Rendering 10 mins of video in Premiere takes how long for each? Does throttling hinder these programs? I think if someone can show me that there are really no differences between the 2 doing these types of tasks, then I think I would be content with the i5. However, if there is truly a 20% performance gain doing these tasks, I would lean to the i7.