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Very few people actually buy laptops for their graphics processing prowess. 
 
And the Apple notebooks should be compared to Dell's business class machines, not the XPS. 

One of my two addresses is with Yahoo.  I have two-step authentication set up [on both] so I'm not really worried about the accounts being compromised. 

and unfortunately for the vast majority, the only IP in the area. In my case its either Comcast or Fairpoint. And Fairpoint considers 3mbps high speed internet.

Nope, it's a little older
 

I am going to guess something like a GTX 590

Go to the Start Menu and typing "Services" into the search field.
Once in there scroll down the list until you see "Windows Update" and double click on it.
This should cause a new window to open and in the General tab go down to "Service Status" and click the stop button if it's running to stop the service.
 
Once that's done go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download in File Explorer and delete everything in the folder.
After doing that go back to the Windows Update service per the previous steps and start the service again and then try checking for updates again.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/68Pfr7
 
 
 
 
 
It`s a troll

X99 would be better for the game development and video editing. 
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HP8ZxY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HP8ZxY/by_merchant/
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($394.98 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE/U3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($379.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($127.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($149.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Video Card  ($577.49 @ Newegg) (980 ti used for price) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($52.98 @ Micro Center) (substitute with case of your choosing) 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.89 @ OutletPC) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($17.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $1990.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-26 12:39 EDT-0400

Yeah, sorry to hear that. It's typical of external HDDs to die after that time period.  

Since the only games you play are CS:GO and Dota the cheapest option might be to install Ubuntu Linux. Linux is not for everybody but at that budget it seems to make sense. You can use Ubuntu for a while and if you don't like it save up and buy Windows. I currently use Fedora Linux to play Steam games but I have used Ubuntu Linux in the past and it works great! I am suggesting Ubuntu because it is a little easier than Fedora to work with.

@LinusTech@Slick
Can't quite figure out how they can offer unlimited and free VPN and still stay in business.
http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/

Intel is really late on these maker things, though this x86-based board is an interesting followup to their (IMO failed) Galileo and Edison boards (Which I tried setting up and failed completely). These better be easier to play with or it's gonna take away from the experience that is Arduino.
 
As for starter Arduino, don't buy an Uno. Buy something like an Adafruit Pro Trinket or a Teensy 3.2 and solder some headers on those for breadboard use. Being Arduino-compatible as well, you get much more I/O pins for less the price of an Uno, and shields are very overrated and pricey.

@Markmjb Atom is an excellent cross platform text editor. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

HTML 5 Demo's : http://html5demos.com/
ES6: http://www.es6fiddle.net/
 
I also have a good collection of HTML 5 + CSS 3 + JS: Demo's in a pdf.
Problem is:
- Not my content really
- Not hosted on public site yet.
 
But i'll share some of the better ones:
- http://html5-demos.appspot.com/gangnam
- http://www.species-in-pieces.com/#(AWESOME)
- http://haxiomic.github.io/projects/webgl-fluid-and-particles/?q=UltraHigh
- https://www.chrome.com/supersyncsports/
 
jQuery: 
- http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/javascript-basics
 
Bootstrap:
- http://www.tutorialrepublic.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial/

Atom is a great text editor that's pretty light weight. I personally love it find it at http://atom.io 

Atom has already been mentioned, but I can't emphasize enough how great of a text editor it is. You can install almost any linter as an add-on, and it can connect with your github repos and show all diffs straight in the editor. You can also make commits through it.