After you order they build it and ship it to you in about 2 weeks. You pick out what you want, customize it, and then they go over the details and talk over the specs with you to make sure you’re getting the perfect fit. The experience has been amazing with them.

They were highly recommended to me by a friend who used them. (I’m not being paid by them and don’t have any affiliate links, fyi). So instead of building a PC myself I decided to go with Puget Systems. I don’t like researching this stuff and I don’t understand most of it. People hire you because you’re good at your job, but also because you are easy to work with and that’s on you. Companies don’t hire freelancers who are a hassle. Make sure you’re keeping up, not just with your skills and knowledge, but also your hardware so you can work with companies seamlessly. In order to stay viable career wise, you have to take a hard look at what the industry is using vs what you have. This has caused some issues when collaborating. Currently the company I’m doing a lot of work with has gone all in with Octane.

If you work with various studios, you need to be able to jump in and work with what their designers and editors are using. One final reason to consider is if you are a freelancer. Price vs what you get is totally in PC’s favor. Third party render engines like Octane and Redshift are dominating our space and if you want to keep up, you need GPU power and lots of it. All of this is super easy with a PC, but with the new Mac Pro, it’s almost impossible. My new PC has 8 slots for hard drives!! On my Mac, you can’t add any internally. Add more cards, upgrade your cards, add more ram, buy more SSDs or internal drives. There are so many options to continue adding on to your machine which is great for future proofing. Get a PC and you can add 4+ graphics cards if you want. If that’s the case, PC wins by a mile. The fact that you can’t really modify and add to the new Macs will lead to their demise. The word is that GPU rendering is not a fad but will be a big part of our collective future.

I just look at trends and keep my ear close to the ground while watching industry leaders. There are multiple reasons but the main one is three letters. Our industry is at the mid to tail end of a big shift from Mac to PC. Here are my reasons and then some specs for you nerds. After more than a decade I am now the owner of a PC.

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