PC Tech Thread

For a year.

1. Yes and no. I can play all the games I want, with all the frames I want, at all the settings I want. Which is definitely a lot more fun than struggling along in bootcamp. I bought parts over about two months as they became available. It was still a chunk of money at a tricky time when a lot of shoots were being cancelled. My thinking was having something more powerful at home would be a complimentary investment to the 100k+ I've spent on cameras/lighting etc over the years that was then gathering dust, and that perhaps I could get more remote work in post production. That has happened (to a degree but more always welcome). So I've earned many times the cost back from the purchase alone. And the avenues for upgrade are good(ish - comments below around threadripper etc not withstanding). However I do like small, quiet and neat things. So there is a big chunk of me wishing I just had a fully decked M1 Max Pro that I could take with me and get comparable edit performance in the field as well as at home. I suspect it wouldn't solve all the problems and I certainly wouldn't be able to game and some codecs would be a pain to render, but it would be small and quiet.

2. Working is fantastic. Playing is fantastic. Both the best I've ever experienced. Fans kick in playing games but quickly chill out when I'm done. And I have headphones on so can't even hear them. The loudest thing is my keyboard.