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Wow... the new Macbook Pro rocks. This is on AC wireless, to my Netgear Nighthawk AC 1900 using Comcast 105 Mbps. Using Safari. Someone was recently emailing me about Safari. They said they were getting lower readings on their Macbook pro, only in Safari. Well, I'm testing under the same conditions... same computer, same browser. I think you have something else causing an issue because on my network, it's screaming fast. Click the image and you'll see that one is a classic download test accompanied by a multithread speed test. While I'm on the subject of speed, look at the PCIe SSD performance... (testing with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test - by the way, my own write test of a 10GB disk image creation performed at a low of 780 MB/s and high of 988 MB/s so blackmagic seems to be a good disk speed test on Mac) The late 2013 Macbook is ridiculous. I have the 15 inch, fully upgraded with 1 TB SSD. Don't even get me started about the display. Because of pixel doubling you can see that my screenshots are huge... I've been starting to notice that my iMac is slowing me down so I needed to upgrade. But I wanted something portable. I can output this to my iMac's display when I want to and get a nicer work space for the type of stuff I do and at the same time take full advantage of the second discrete graphics card... well to truly take advantage of it I'd need a 4k monitor but I'm waiting till 4k monitors are much cheaper. It would be really nice but when the display costs more than the computer... loses it's appeal. The 4k resolution is at a lower refresh rate too. 60 Hz 4k would be nice Apple. I think I need to replace my iMac's SSD. I was getting 500 MB/s read and write at first but I've used it a lot... they degrade over time. This is a 2011 model I bought in April. With only 256 GB Corsair Performance Pro SSD Don't get me wrong, my iMac is still very fast. But you guys know me... I have a need for speed. It's kinda what I do... hence the website. Anyone looking to upgrade to a laptop that can put badass desktop computers to shame should be looking at the new macbook line. Pair it with a solid network and you can't go wrong. I'll be able to blaze through my routine and get two or three times the work done. You can't upgrade the memory later, so make sure that you get what you'll need up front... but speaking of SSD degradation. The SSD is a discrete component according to my research... so that's good, although Apple says it's "not a user serviceable part" ... it is, I change "non user serviceable parts" all the time and I would bet that there will be third party drives released. So when it degrades, which it will... it's replaceable. ... 2000 MB/s SSD performance may be possible with aftermarket PCIe SSD. They run PCIexpress 2.0, I believe it's 4 lanes. So there is headroom there for improvement. Time will tell. Funny, the girl at Apple told me, "it's soldered on the board..." -- probably just wanted me to spring for the more expensive one. Bitch. Oh well, I'll put it to go use. All I know is that I'll be able to work faster and more conveniently now. Thanks again Apple. (killer battery life too, especially for an core i7. Past hour, 9% used.)

Feelin' your pain pgoodwin - more all the time. But hey , gotta take the good with the bad and do what we can with what we have at hand

Same here. Well I'll be dog bite my man parts.

now that i've looked at that thing a few times, and see what differences there is a different browsers, i can understand where you're coming from, even if you aren't using proper terminology! i have a few computers here to work on that don't any anti virus' installed at all, let alone bitdefender. after i get done cleaning them up, i'll try some tests on them and see what that TiP looks like. thank you for the assistance. i consider this topic closed.

Yea that new mac pro seems like the shit to git - although the design is obviously mastered for various reasons. This old 07' MBP is still cruising along, save I'm mainly in a shell or several, otherwise it's troublesome. Slow when piling on the apps I mean to say. I can only imagine you must be smiling inside while using that new machine Ca3le

$32K! Dude, personally if I needed that much power... I'd get a loaded Mac Pro... and raid some Thunderbolt drives. And if that didn't get it done... I'd get two or three of them and still come in under $32K. That's like the size of a medium drink from McDonalds. You can daisy chain them... (up to 36 devices) and have a 20 GB/s link between the machines. Mac is superior in my opinion. Wouldn't you love a more elegant machine... It even knows to turn the lights on the ports when it detects that you've turned it... it senses that you're trying to to plug something in and lights the way. The design is beautiful. It was beyond what I need right now. The way that I'd want to get it... Minus $3600 without the display... For the people out there with super heavy computing tasks where time is money. Like video engineers... that makes sense. Not too many applications are taking advantage of the GPU aspect yet, final cut pro and some other high end software are doing it. Sure, you can build a single PC machine that would be more far more powerful but can you do it with this kind of footprint? Can you do it this quietly? (only 12dB) In my opinion, the Late 2013 Mac Pro is a work of art in every aspect. You'd have to be insane to spend $32K on a PC.