Well it depends,some years ago I used to be obsessed with smart phones,back when the HTC HD2 was released,now I can't stand them,probably going to have my galaxy s2 even 10 years from now. But having a good gaming build/work station is nice and productive. I don't really need all that horsepower,I just like to have it there in case I'll ever need it,heh. Plus I love how it looks. The PC is pretty much where I spend most of my time apart from the time when I go to the gym,university and out with the girl. Other than that I'm always at the PC so at least I might just get something that'll serve me well for the years. I even went for a 8 core CPU just so it can handle the workload I put on it,an I7 was way too expensive for what it offered and it didn't really handle all my needs. The current machine is built to handle heavy workloads,I didn't build it only for gaming like most people do,I wanted to have flexibility and be able to do a lot of things without a severe performance hit,a friend of mine has a sandy bridge i7 and once he starts multiple CPU intensive apps it starts to perform really bad,right now after 6 months of usage I never noticed a strong performance hit no matter how many things I was running in the background ( except GPU bottlenecks in games )