Originally Posted by fade2green514

workstations are used for different things. more ram and a dual core is definitely better for it... and normally less hard drive space.
as for daily use... a p4 2.4 and a pentium d 3ghz wont perform a ton different... the clicking speed and the amount of time it takes to open something. that depends more on ram speed and well, hard drive speed. if you had two 10,000rpm hard drives in raid 0 then you'd notice an enourmous difference... no matter if you have a celeron d 2.53ghz or a Pentium 4 at 3.8ghz.
granted, some things may open quicker with a faster processor... but normal apps for everyday use depend more on hard drive speed.
try encoding/converting with the workstation, it'll probably take less than half the time... plus 2gb is definitely a lot better than 512mb or even 1gb. that beast wont run out of memory for quite some time.