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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.

#PRICEWATCHER 980 TI UPGRADE#

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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