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Originally Posted by gurusan 
Because people will pay it.
Intel Xeons are not the same as AMD opterons. They are not better binned or better clockers. They are merely restamped as Xeons.
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Actually it's the other way around. There are far more Xeon models than there are equivalent desktop models.
Take a Xeon, "castrate" it (remove one of the QPI links or slow it down, the ability to install in multi-sockets, etc) and you get your consumer / pro-consumer equivalent.
I would disagree with the statement that they're not better binned - but short of having direct physical access to the manufacturing process, there's no real way to claim one way or the other.