Birck Cox wrote:
You mean that, no matter how fast the external drive is by itself, the combination of basic speed, cable type and length, and enclosure type will reduce overall speed-when the external drive is running the system- to well below the speed achievable with an internal drive(?).
Exactly.
For the sake of having the external drive, I can live with that.
But it's not about you.
Well, It's about me as far as my remarks in this conversation are concerned.
Macs are very expensive.
Yes, and?
When most people hand over that much money, they want to get every drop of performance that they are paying for.
That may be true for "most people", whatever that means; not necessarily for me.
Those are Apple's customers
So my lack of fervor for Speed At All Costs makes me NOT one of Apple's customers? Allow me to point out that I've been using Macs since the early 1990's, and buying them since the late 1990's.
and that's what they value. If you have different values, then perhaps you've chosen the wrong product.
"chosen the wrong product"? Frankly, I find the pathological nature of your condescension appalling