I'm looking at some Dell Workstations for CAD and...
I'm trying to figure out if Xeon is better. In the old days it was the shit, but I'm seeing that the i7 might be better. So, why are the Xeon machines more expensive? Also, the clock speeds on the Xeons are confusing. An E5-2630, 6-core, 2.6GHz is $5,200 cheaper than the Dual E5-2670,10-core, 2.5GHz. They add cores, slow down the clock and jack the hell out of the price. All the Xeon machines show a slightly lower processor rating than the machines with i7 CPUs. And, the i7 machines are waaaay cheaper but, their recommendations for CAD systems are Xeon CPUs.
Also, are solid state drives noticeably faster? Like, big-time faster?
Anyone, anyone....