Richard Lee

After spending the last two months pushing eight different desktop workstations through the same Blender test scene, I can tell you one thing clearly: there is no single “best desktop workstation for Blender.” There is, however, the right tool for your specific work, and that’s exactly what I’ll help you find. Our team at Mercury […]

I spent the last three months testing desktop workstations specifically for machine learning workloads, running everything from 7B parameter LLM inference to Stable Diffusion fine-tuning. After burning through more electricity than I’d like to admit and benchmarking over 200 training runs, I can tell you which systems actually deliver and which ones look great on

I spent the last three months running Excel workbooks, QuickBooks ledgers, and tax-prep files through eight desktop computers to find the best desktop computers for accounting in . My team zeroed in on real accounting pain points: multi-monitor spreadsheet workflows, large client ledger files, and software like QuickBooks, Drake, and Lacerte that punish underpowered machines.

Silence is the whole reason you are here, and the best fanless mini PCs deliver it completely: not “quiet,” but genuinely 0 dB with zero moving parts. I spent three months running eight passively cooled mini computers through daily office work, 4K media playback, Home Assistant duty, and week-long 24/7 server tests to find out

After spending 90 days testing 8 certified refurbished business desktops across our lab, I can tell you one thing: the gap between new and refurbished enterprise PCs has practically disappeared. For our team at Mercury PC, we deployed these units to a simulated 12-person office, ran real productivity benchmarks, and pushed each machine through daily

After spending the last three months benchmarking 12 different desktop workstations against real Revit 2026 models (including a 480MB hospital project with point clouds and linked DWG files), our team put together this list of the best desktop workstations for Revit. We measured viewport frame rates in 3D views, sync times on central models, and

If you run AutoCAD every day, a slow viewport can turn simple edits into a frustrating test of patience. I compared eight desktop workstations and focused on the parts that affect drafting most: responsive single-thread CPU performance, enough memory for large drawings, professional graphics options, fast NVMe storage, and the cooling needed to keep performance

Finding the right desktop workstation for SolidWorks in means balancing single-threaded CPU performance, professional graphics, and enough RAM for complex assemblies. I have spent months testing workstations and analyzing real-world performance to identify which systems actually deliver glitch-free modeling. SolidWorks rebuilds models using single-core clock speed, making that 5.0 GHz threshold critical. Our team evaluated

I’ve spent the past three years testing laptops with various Linux distributions, and finding the right machine for Linux can be surprisingly tricky. The best laptops for Linux need solid driver support, good hardware compatibility, and ideally come with your preferred distro pre-installed to avoid the headache of troubleshooting proprietary components. After extensive testing with

Our team spent the last 90 days testing 19 candidates in a 36-by-18 inch desk setup to find the best monitors for small desks in . We measured stand footprints down to the millimeter, ran each panel through productivity work and casual gaming, and physically clipped bulky stands off the desk to see which ones