In 1999 I said that the “desktop will become the Browser”.
I really didn’t expect it to take this long.
I replaced a room full of SPARC blades with a pair of HP BL680c blades with (2 sockets x 10 cores x 2 threads/core) and 64 GB RAM per blade. A p2000 disk array with 4 TB RAID 10 on 10 Gb Enet hosts about 30 VMs including 32/64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. A few Windows servers and a Solaris 10 x86 as well. Good performance. Low power. Small foot print. Small heat load. The new CPU in this article exceeds the 10 core per socket devices I’m using. At home I use an i7-2600k CPU with 16 GB RAM and 3 TB SATAIII disk. Good enough for home use.