For me, the reasons for going with a MacBook Pro back in 2013 are listed below.

I know lots of people are very happy with Apple products; they're just not for me.

An example of my reasoning is. I recently wanted to retrieve some stuff off of some 128MB 3.5" magneto-optical cartridges I had since the days of Yore. I still had the drive, and adapter, but the latter is Parallel ATA. No good in my machine with a SATA interfaces.

But I went on line and found this SATA/IDE adapter (for a third the price that Apple charge for an adapter so that you can use last years Apple peripherals with this years model). Two days later I can take a stroll down memory lane reading code and stuff I wrote circa 1995.

You can't do that with Apple's disposables.

I have read this thread over and over. My posts are valid. Thus, no funny numbers. :-)

True. But as I told Karl, "It's also where marioroy's examples defy my analysis; because his system has the fastest IO rate I've ever seen.".

I know my machine is relatively slow, but your numbers looked like magic until we got to the discussion of your 1GB/s capable SSD; at which point things made sense.

As I said before. Impressive hardware performance. (Just a shame about the other stuff:)

BTW: In the normal way of things, @BrowserUk won't cause people to see your posts directed at them around here. If you want a particular person to see a post, you need to reply to one of their posts.

I just happened to notice your name attached to a new post in a thread that I'd been interested in; but you shouldn't rely on that.