Hi Alan, Thank you for the reply. I did realise my apples/oranges CPU usage mistake shortly after I posted (no pun intended). The PC laptop was using 30% of 4 cores, which might equate to about 120% on the Mac, so I suppose the two figures could be considered comparable. I have managed to borrow an ...

I have been considering buying one of the 2000A/B-series PicoScopes, so I downloaded the PicoScope 6 software to see how it ran on my MacBook Pro (mid-2009 17-inch 2.8 GHz Core2 Duo, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512 MB, OS X 10.11.6), as this is my primary computer at home, where I intend to us...