> Also with Intel you can upgrade to more performant Xeons Xeons are not necessarily more performant, in fact, often they are less performant than their deskto

> Also with Intel you can upgrade to more performant Xeons Xeons are not necessarily more performant, in fact, often they are less performant than their desktop brethren... They're server CPU's, designed for long uptime, typically underclocked compared to the same silicon in an i7/i5 package (they focus on stability, not sheer performance), support ECC memory (again, not performance related, rather stability), support more memory, etc.