Well, this sounds good and I'm happy I am holding out for my new machine until it comes out.
We'll have to see real world benchmarks by independent 3rd parties to validate the performance/$ but it continues to look quite impressive as long as you are staying in the sub $500 range.
The next step up from those CPUs really is going to be dual xeon boxes, which is a huge jump.
Intel tried to do enough market segmentation that the curve from a Pentium all the way up to dual CPU workstations was fairly continuous in price, with zen it's not the case anymore.
We'll have to see real world benchmarks by independent 3rd parties to validate the performance/$ but it continues to look quite impressive as long as you are staying in the sub $500 range.