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Lots of awesome technology is business/government/militry driven behind the scenes and then filters down to the consumer.


My workstation has 48GB of ram. 48. GB. And it's still slow for the things I do.
I'm still amazed at my 8GB machine I just built which has a 6 core processor. It's funny, I priced up a 24GB machine with a nearly top i7 processor, 2x2TB drives in Raid 1, Sata 6, etc, and the price was something like 5-6 times my machine. 1/2 the price difference was the i7. My 6 core AMD was only about 2/3rds the speed of the top i7.

There is always a huge price tag between the bleeding edge and the cost effective.
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