Way more cores if the software will take advantage.
Interesting.
I just want to do heavy browsing and run multiple virtual machines.
Been playing around with Qubes...
Indeed EPYC is available, and has been reviewed. The thing I don't like about it (on my first take) is that single-core performance really gets trounced by the latest Xeon, and another generation of Xeon is about to get launched.
My needs for this workstation are to run some design software that can sometimes be sped up by multi-core, but for other segments is bottlenecked by single-core performance.
Also, my budget is not really ready for either Xeon or EPYC prices! At most, that upcoming iMac Pro, starting at $5000 for a Xeon-based all-in-one, might be justifiable. Then again, that won't be available until December, which means in reality, February....
This makes me think Threadripper may be the "sweet spot" - provided I can drive a system based on it hard (i.e. thermal reliability) and the system has ECC RAM (so my designs don't have deadly flaws sneak in due to data corruption).