Laptop CPU help needed

[acronym]

Just had an offer, to swop my thinkpad for another laptop. I'm mainly interested in it because its an i7, however, its a 3rd ULV cpu. While mine is broadwell. 

 

I use my laptop currently to digitally paint and draw, and while it has 4GB soldered on I never had an issues with it really. As I use the desktop to do Zbrush and any Photoshop for

heavy lifting.

 

Now my laptop has an i3 5005u while his is  i7 3517u. Now I checked the charts and it doesn't seem significantly better am I correct in that assumption?.

 

 

[Samppa221]

The i3 has 2 cores and 4 threads as the i7 has and the i3 runs at 2.0GHz and the i7 at 1.9 boosts at 3  and the i3 is newer i would say stick with your current one if you don't need more ram.

[Castdeath97]

Considering it has i7 features  and higher clock like hyperthreading it should be better,but if you are looking for a significant improvement look for a quad skylake like the i7 6300HQ/MQ or i7 6700MQ/HQ/HK.

[acronym]

Thank you, at the moment all the quad CPUs are heavy laptops, the Yoga is a portable machine I use for work and use as a digital sketchpad. So I say it isn't worth getting as the performance bump seems minimal. Am I correct in this?

[Castdeath97]

Thank you, at the moment all the quad CPUs are heavy laptops, the Yoga is a portable machine I use for work and use as a digital sketchpad. So I say it isn't worth getting as the performance bump seems minimal. Am I correct in this?

Then wait for skylake ULVs.