What is the big deal with IQueryable?

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I've seen a lot of people talking about IQueryable and I haven't quite picked up on what all the buzz is about. I always work with generic List's and find they are very rich in the way you can "query" them and work with them, even run LINQ queries against them.

So I'm wondering if there is a good reason to start considering a different default collection in my projects.

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What is the big deal with IQueryable?

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