But if you suddenly must get your workstation serviced without warning and have a lot of networked muscle, you can instantly work from a laptop and use a render server to keep your efficiency relatively high while your main machine is MIA. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you put all your money and CPU cores into one box, you are going to be in a really bad spot if that machine goes down. Dumb muscle has one job to do essentially: keep pummeling. After, they go back to sleep and wait for the next call. Work stations are overkill to use as what I call "dumb muscle."ĭumb muscle machines are like mafia button men: they lie dormant until the boss calls them in for a job and then they go beat the hell out of something-in this case, a set of 3D frames or video composites. But a workstation can be too much machine for some things, so often you want to free it up to use for asset production instead of saturating it with render tasks. ![]() Further Reading A pro with serious workstation needs reviews Apple’s 2013 Mac ProIn my recent Mac Pro review, I mentioned that a workstation computer (whether from Apple, HP, or Dell) is designed to be good at a lot of tasks that are demanding on the CPU and, increasingly, on the GPU.
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