The End of an Era: Goodbye, Windows 10!

Puget Systems will stop selling Windows 10 at the end of 2024. William looks back on this version's long run and why it is finally coming to an end.

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Unreal Fest 2024: My Experience at Epic’s Annual Conference

Unreal Fest 2024 took place in my hometown of Seattle. I share some of my thoughts, both good and bad, about what the conference was like.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Content Creation Review

We examine the performance of Intel's new Core Ultra 200S series desktop processors in content creation applications.

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Video Recap | Adobe MAX 2024

Puget Systems attended Adobe MAX 2024 in Miami, Florida, both in-person and virtually. This video recaps Puget System's experience and key takeaways from MAX.

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Unreal Engine 5.5: From SMPTE 2110 to MegaLights, What’s New and Noteworthy

Epic has unveiled the updates and new features in Unreal Engine 5.5. We review the main points and discus their impacts.

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What H.264 and H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in Premiere Pro?

Premiere Pro supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all "flavors" of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has


What H.264 and H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in DaVinci Resolve Studio?

Davinci Resolve Studio supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all "flavors" of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media


Power Draw, Cooling, and Efficiency: Intel Core Ultra 200S

In this article, we examine the power draw and efficiency of the new Intel Core Ultra 200S series processors.

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Nvidia Issues Critical Security Warning for GPU Drivers

Why You Need This Article Nvidia issued a stern security alert for users with Nvidia GPUs, pointing out eight critical vulnerabilities in their GPU drivers. These defects, scored “High” in severity, are extremely dangerous: The products affected include: Both Windows and Linux users are affected. One particularly concerning vulnerability, CVE‑2024‑0126, affects both operating systems and

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Microsoft Surprises with New Windows 10 Build

Microsoft has surprised us by teasing a new build of Windows 10. Despite Microsoft’s near-end-of-support date in 2025. New builds will include Microsoft’s AI-based Copilot for the Release Preview of Windows 10 Home and Pro then current versions to follow. Key features include: However, Windows 10 won’t support many features of the Windows 11 Copilot

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