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Puget Mobile 17″ vs M3 Max MacBook Pro 16″ for AI Workflows

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Jon Allman

How does the new Puget Mobile 17″ compare to the MacBook Pro M3 Max 16″ in performance across a variety of AI-powered workloads?

Mac vs PC 2024

Mac vs PC for Content Creation (2024)

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Evan Lagergren

Following our recent M3 Max MacBook testing, we used our benchmark database to get performance data for Mac vs. PC for content creation.

Puget Systems Laptop vs Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max Battery Life and Thermals

Puget Mobile 17″ vs M3 Max MacBook Pro 16″ Battery & Thermal Analysis

Posted on April 29, 2024 by Evan Lagergren

The Puget Mobile 17″ is a mobile workstation. How does it’s battery life and emmisions compare to an Apple M3 Max?

Puget Systems Laptop vs Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max for Content Creation

Puget Mobile 17″ vs M3 Max MacBook Pro 16″ for Content Creation

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Evan Lagergren, Matt Bach and Kelly Shipman

How does the new Puget Mobile 17″ compare to the top-end M3 Max MacBook Pro 16″ in performance for content creation?

Agisoft PhotoScan 1.4.1 – Apple iMac Pro and Mac Pro vs PC Workstations

Posted on June 18, 2018 by William George

PhotoScan makes heavy use of both the central processors (CPUs) in a computer and the video cards (GPUs) to run many of the calculations involved in turning still images into a 3D model or map. Agisoft, the makers of PhotoScan, have versions available for both Windows and macOS – so let’s take a look at how these two, competing computer platforms compare.

V-Ray CPU Rendering: Apple iMac Pro and Mac Pro vs PC Workstations

Posted on May 17, 2018 by William George

“Mac or PC?” – the age-old question among computer enthusiasts. How fast are Apple and PC workstations when rendering in V-Ray? And which offers a better value?

Start Guide: Switching from Mac to Windows

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Brett Nordquist

We’ve been hearing from a regular stream of customers who are making the move from Mac OS X to Windows, and they often have questions about how to perform basic tasks on their new Puget Systems PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. So we created this Start Guide to help them around their new desktop.

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