start at the ground, build up from there.

I am more offended that they took out the option for dedicated servers on the PC version.

Then try testing it on one of the new Mac Pros. 8 physical cores 16 with hyper threading....

I probably should consider this a good thing see as how a good FO based MMO would ruin my life.

I don't know what caused it, but my normal Call of Duty: World at War server that i used to ping 50 to just jumped to about 120 on average. It really messed with my accuracy for a few rounds until i adjusted. I didn't think it would make a difference but it definitely did.

"No, a company should not slander their competitors to do more business. Propaganda results in an overall decline of the happiness of almost all consumers." even as a Windows user, I can't help but laugh at PC in the Mac commercials....

You are correct, the main difference is the QuickPath Interconnect speed which is faster in the Xeon chip.Which for the end user, I imagine would be hard to see a difference. But for the price difference, he could have picked up the i7 975 Extreme Edition, which has the same QPI (for a single chip) and is clocked at 3.33ghz with an unlocked multiplier and STILL be several hundred dollars shy of Apple. Also given decent air cooling most people assume they will reach about 4ghz overclocked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem_(microarchitecture)

What you are missing is THERE IS such a product. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/fundamentals.mspx But it was never rolled out for the end consumer. I revived a few old machines with it and it was actually fairly nice.