Worth it to buy an ivy bridge processor still?

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Im looking into buying a Convertable laptop, and I am trying to stay under 800 dollars, I really like the Lenovo Helix, and would really like an I7, however the clearance models I am finding in my price range have the IVY bridge architecture, which is an older chip. My question is, is it worth the money to but a computer with a processor that is a few years old, or should I look for a convertible with a haswell generation processor, or a newer core M processor
 
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Performance to a similar Haswell will be very close with the Haswell getting better battery life and having a better integrated GPU. Broadwells are going to be fully released soon so you might see Haswells on clearence in a few months or even weeks. To answer you r question, though, there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting an Ivy Bridge especially if it is marked down significantly. If you have the money, I would definitely go Broadwell. Thanks to the new architecture and 14nm process, it should give you much better battery life over Ivy Bridge and Haswell. Performance, though, is probably going to be the same or only slightly better than Haswell since it seems that this generation is more focused on battery life, power efficiency and staying very cool vs raw performance.
 
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see personally i believe to buy that is not worth it as haswell is out the i7 4770k , i5 4690 i5 4690k , i5 4670, are really good cpu's they stay cool have good inbuilt graphics and not given me any problem the above ones i mentioned are desktop processors in the m series look out for i7 4770hq , i7 4700mq , i7 4600m these are pretty good or if u want to see and compare the cpus download this app called INTEL ARK on andriod or ios it shows u all the recient updates and cpus intel has got
 
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Does this model come with a discrete GPU from Nvidia or is it using the Intel HD Graphics? If it is the Intel GPU, then I guess the original pricing had more to do with the form factor than the internal hardware. 800 for any mobile 3rd gen. i7 quad core (make sure this i7 is in fact quad core with 8 threads) is quite a good deal. If it is a dual core i7, then it probably isn't worth it even at 800 since you can get a similar performing i5 for much less. If there aren't any Haswells in the convertible laptop form factor with an i7 quad core in that price range, I'd say go ahead and get it. It is new enough that it will handle just about anything you throw at it and the 4th and 5th gen CPUs aren't really a massive leap ahead of it.
 
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It is going to be the integrated graphics, it is going to be a convertiable, so it sounds like I may be better off saving more money and going with the I5 model, since it is a dual core i7
 
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