We get a new computer every few years at work and I always select a Mac. I have also been buying Macs for the past 20 years for home use. I have always been an Apple fanboy. Having said that, this computer is hands-down one of the worst I have ever had.The battery life is laughable, but the main problem is the lack of horsepower. With only a few items open and sitting idle in the background, the computer still gets overworked and heats up, at which time the fans kick in and go to maximum, where they will stay for extended periods of time (and they are loud). The laptop case becomes so hot that you can't actually keep the thing on your "lap," thus negating the whole term "laptop."So I fire up Activity Monitor to see what's going on and notice a file called kernel_task eating up 600-800% of the CPU. I do some research on what that task is doing and find out that it is a built-in task that basically chews up CPU time on purpose whenever the computer gets hot in order to slow things down and let the computer cool down.Since this overheating situation happens most of the time, that basically means that you are working on a throttled down computer where the performance shrinks back to the Windows 7 days.I can definitely tell that Steve Jobs is no longer with us, as the expected quality degradation that I thought would happen after he passed away can already be seen. The post-Steve-Jobs era at Apple has clearly left its former "quality first" mantra.This, in fact, may be my last Mac purchase since I no longer have confidence that Apple as a company still has the same commitment to quality that Steve Jobs embodied.