This thing is fast. I bought the base model, and it's one of the fastest PCs I've ever owned. Obviously, there are people out there trying to use this for professional video production work etc., and they seem surprised that it doesn't always handle it as well as a multi-thousand desktop PC with a dedicated top-tier graphics card. I'd refer them to the quote from the animated film "Up", "but it's a talking dog!" For what it is, this is remarkable and just wait for the M1X...