Actually, in regards to an i7, no, I wouldn't take one. My 4 year old Acer laptop has an old i5 M430 coupled with 8GB's of RAM , a 256GB Samsung 470 Series SSD and some huge, brandless Korean battery I've had hanging off the bottom for the past 3 years. It makes for a GREAT typing angle since it tilts the keyboard 10-15*. It boots in 15 seconds, opens Facebook and Excel files like a boss and lasts around 7 hours. No i7 needed. I don't need the processing speed. I don't want the loss in battery life and the increase in heat for all that extra processing that, like I said, I don't need. I play the occasional game on my desktop that I built myself. It's even older than my laptop and takes everything I throw at it. Well, the GPU is relatively new. But the overclocked Wolfdale under the hood certainly isn't. Everything I do is strategic. There's more to selecting hardware than just buying whats at the top of a spec sheet.
The average person doesn't care about a spec sheet. I flash crap all day and tinker around with things all the time and I don't care about spec sheets either. Yes, Samsung tossed a Quad-Core into the S4 to deal with their bloat. Did it work? Is it a smooth experience? No, no it isn't, so what good does all that spec'd out hardware do? What runs smoother? A vomiting, repulse iPhone 5 or an S4? Which has higher specs? Which is more optimized?
Like I've said before, if Motorola built this device well and optimized the thing for Android, then I don't see a need to flash a ROM until CM10.1 is finished for it, and maybe not even then. In the past, the devices I've owned have always "needed" a flash for various reasons like my original, stock Galaxy S being a lag ***** or my GNex needing to be rolled back off of 4.2. Is the GNex just OmGzErZ2oLd2RunKNeWaNdRoID? No, it's due to a lack of optimization. It was a turd of an update. As a result, the S4 is a laggy ******* despite it's quad cores and the One runs like a Ferrari. Spec sheet hardware had little to do with it.
Stopping chasing spec sheets and wait for devices to come out to see how they run. I know it's a novel, new concept guys, but if you're always chasing spec sheets you're always going to be disappointed and you're always going to be waiting for the next greatest thing. There's zero reason to be upset and frustrated over a device that isn't even out yet! Give it a chance. Maybe we'll all be surprised. Maybe we'll all hate it. Either way we won't know until August.