The worst response was from Adobe staff referring to a non Adobe site on how to migrate your Lightroom catalog to a new computer, LOL!. I think the answer was Johan stating that it is probably too early to get qualified responses is the relevant one together with sciully999's answer, actually one with hands on experience, I would have expected less noise and better performance than a laptop. I fully understand your disappointment of the Adobe forums based on this thread. That is unfortunately general for Internet forums. So, not all reply to your thread because they have an answer, but i agree that you have received some useless comments and understand your frustrations. Not to replace my Windows PC but as a supplement and it will include running Lightroom and Photoshop. I ended in this thread because I am considering the exactly same purchase.