No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed.

I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.

But you will most likely have it anyway.

Speak for yourself. My primary computer is a $200 laptop.

ok, try Atom and report back. The guy who was complaining had projects of several thousand files, some of which were 50,000 line xml files.