Design and Features
The E30 looks like a standard tower, with the addition of an easy-to-use handle on the top that lets you easily move the system from one cubicle to another. The perforated front panel of the E30 is all business: two USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks, a digital media card reader, and a DVD burner. But it's a party in the back, with six more USB 2.0 ports, more audio jacks, Ethernet, serial port, and DVI and DisplayPort jacks (on the discrete Quadro 600 video card).

Performance
The Xeon E3-1230 processor has four cores and supports Hyper-Threading, so it can chew on eight processing streams at once. This advantage is huge for tasks like 3D rendering.