The i7 processor is an option on the 17" MacBook Pro. I wrote yesterday that it was standard (and have corrected that on the archived news page). Someone also asked if clock speed was the reason why you wanted the i7. Not exactly. The i7 has a larger on-chip memory cache than the i5. For photographers, it seems that raw conversion is one of the places where the new processors excel over the old Core 2 Duos (which have higher base clock frequencies). But as Lloyd Chambers points out, Capture NX2 is not a converter that benefits much.