I looked at the Talos website. They're asking 2-4k$ for a 4 core (4 way SMT, so let's say 8 core when comparing to x86_64 just to be nice) dev desktop, with 8

I looked at the Talos website. They're asking 2-4k$ for a 4 core (4 way SMT, so let's say 8 core when comparing to x86_64 just to be nice) dev desktop, with 8 to 16 GB ram. The same spend on a Dell Xeon workstation nets quite a bit more hardware.