I am an IT professional. I have built 4 "Gamer" class desktops for family and myself in the past year. While I love to "tinker" to get a bunch of hardware to all work together with Microsoft Windows, nothing beats my latest 13" MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013), i7 Haswell, 1 terabyte flash storage, 16 GB RAM and a back lit keyboard and the latest OS X. It just works. And if it doesn't work, that is what Apple Care is for. While you may have been able to add an SSD and I am assuming somehow removing the optical drive and cluging in another hard drive, I am wondering about the processor. Your 3+ year old processor is a dinosaur! I have owned 4 Mac's in the past 5 years. The resale value is awesome and that is how I upgrade often. If your passion for tearing about a Mac has lead you away from Apple, you simply don't get it. You buy a Mac so you don't have to "F" with it all the time!

I am an IT professional. I have built 4 "Gamer" class desktops for family and myself in the past year. While I love to "tinker" to get a bunch of hardware to all work together with Microsoft Windows, nothing beats my latest 13" MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013), i7 Haswell, 1 terabyte flash storage, 16 GB RAM and a back lit keyboard and the latest OS X. It just works. And if it doesn't work, that is what Apple Care is for. While you may have been able to add an SSD and I am assuming somehow removing the optical drive and cluging in another hard drive, I am wondering about the processor. Your 3+ year old processor is a dinosaur! I have owned 4 Mac's in the past 5 years. The resale value is awesome and that is how I upgrade often. If your passion for tearing about a Mac has lead you away from Apple, you simply don't get it. You buy a Mac so you don't have to "F" with it all the time!

I am familiar with a company that outsourced their IT to HP and and hired the former IT staff. HP now treats those employees terribly. The only ones that seem to make out are the HP management (which is Bloated to say the least). When given a chance, people flock to get out of HP and are immediately treated terribly when they give their notice. The 18 people that HP is so desperate to go after were probably former GM employees that were forced to work for EDS/HP which was owned by GM until 1996. So out of about 350,00 HP employees, any of which could be laid off as part of HP's active work force reduction, HP will send an Army of Lawyers to make sure that these 18 suffer because they didn't stay at their post long enough for HP to fire them.