Re: Intel contraints
Not sure about that. My company is phasing out desktops and replacing them with laptops+monitor combos. And nice laptops to boot, I7s (yeah, not helping AMD, but there's nothing I can do about that, anyway)+16gb RAM+SSDs are more than enough for all the coding we do (all kinds really, from phone apps to custom front-end and exchange trading platforms). It's a global financial company with 1000s of coders all around the globe that buys 1000s PC every year.