Re:Superficial Market Creation (Score 1)

That isn't entirely true. There are a few seemingly minor advantages with workstation hardware that does account for high-costs. It wasn't till after the Pentium 4's started reachig 3gHz did 64-bit PC's started to appear on the market. But, archaic workstations, such as Sun Ultra 10, were 64-bit even when their processors were only 333mHz. It might not seem important to some, but to those who back in the mid 90's, wouldn't pay 5k for a 64-bit system didn't need one back then, and those who would usually did need it. The higher-quality cards do seem to have only minor differences, but those differences are expensive to manufacture, and they do give the edge to professionals that amatuers wouldn't have with consumer products.