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And why not just by a Mac mini and thunderbolt expansion chasis? achieves the same goal doesn't it?

e.g. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Merc... , http://www.magma.com/expressbox-3t , http://www.sonnettech.com/product//thunderbolt/index.html

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It does not, because you are still stuck with i5/i7 processors, whereas workstations, especially those in high performance applications, would be much more suited to a Xeon.

I run a linux workstation with dual 6 core Xeon Sandy Bridge-EP's, with 64 GB of RAM. Being on an i7 would be limiting.

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