The unfair aspect of this criticism is that Apple is putting faster storage in recent macs, see<p><a href="http://semiaccurate.com/2016/11/15/apple-maintains-ux-dominance-nvme-ssds/" rel="nofollow">http://semiaccurate.com/2016/11/15/apple-maintains-ux-domina...</a><p>and a 2007 machine with an SSD will run rings around a brand-new machine that is dragged down by an HDD.<p>No computer manufacturer has done a good job at convincing consumers of the value of SSDs.