Arlo> For the past week I have been drooling over https://puri.sm Arlo> after someone posted it [...] Sadly I don't see any desktops there - pity, they look slick. My most important question is how to evaluate a desktop computer's performance from the numbers given. I'm looking at about 8cores, 32gig, no disk (I already have a bunch). I would look at price once I see options and understand the following question better: Mark> And talking about specs, what does a core mean anyway these Mark> days? In the days of hyperthreading it appears that Mark> /proc/cpuinfo can give twice as many cores as the hardware Mark> specs, but with half the gigahertz. I'm not asking anyone to Mark> actually explain it -- what I'm asking is if there is a small Mark> set of numbers labeled on h/w which will give me an idea of Mark> single-taks performance and parallel performance.