If you review the two links above you'll see the performance diffierences (Geekbench). The good news here is you've upgraded from an i5 to an i7 CPU which will give you more threads (2 cores - 4 threads) over your older CPU (2 cores - 2 threads) So apps which are multi-threaded will run much better!
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The clocking frequency between the two is very little 2.7 Vs 3.1 so a single threaded won't run that much faster. But! These CPU's do offer Turbo Boost 2.0 so they can ramp up the clock frequency 3.4 Vs 3.1 GHz of one of the cores which helps!
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The clocking frequency between the two is very little 2.7 Vs 3.1 so a single threaded app won't run that much faster. But! These CPU's do offer Turbo Boost 2.0 so they can ramp up the clock frequency 3.4 Vs 3.1 GHz of one of the cores which helps!
As for the SSD change out a larger SSD does improve things from the die level of the SSD and the ability of the processor to leverage deeper storage. The trick is to make sure you have at least 1/4 of the space as empty (128 GB) for a 512 GB SSD and for a 128 GB SSD we need around 1/3 (40 GB).
RAM gets tricky! Basic word processing won't stress 8 GB of RAM, but deeper apps like photo editing can leverage the deeper RAM as well as video and gaming.
If you review the two links above you'll see the performance diffierences (Geekbench). The good news here is you've upgraded from an i5 to an i7 CPU which will give you more threads (2 cores - 4 threads) over your older CPU (2 cores - 2 threads) So apps which are multi-threaded will run much better!
The clocking frequency between the two is very little 2.7 Vs 3.1 so a single threaded won't run that much faster. But! These CPU's do offer Turbo Boost 2.0 so they can ramp up the clock frequency 3.4 Vs 3.1 GHz of one of the cores which helps!
As for the SSD change out a larger SSD does improve things from the die level of the SSD and the ability of the processor to leverage deeper storage. The trick is to make sure you have at least 1/4 of the space as empty (128 GB) for a 512 GB SSD and for a 128 GB SSD we need around 1/3 (40 GB).
RAM gets tricky! Basic word processing won't stress 8 GB of RAM, but deeper apps like photo editing can leverage the deeper RAM as well as video and gaming.