Preston Birdwell

One of the things I really, really, appreciate about the main NPN site is the lack of advertising. In this light, therefore, I agree with Toni's suggestion to use PhotoPortfolios as a sales vehicle for items such as prints, calendars, stock, etc. and keep the main site free of overt marketing. Regardless of which vehicle is used, I think it is a bad idea to display prices for work to be sold. While display of prices would encourage competition and give the prospective customer a heads-up as to price, I fear that 'low balling' could result. If a vie

I heartily second everything that Jim says! I ordered my Obsidian-based PC on April 27. During the testing process, Puget discovered that the mother board was causing the system to lock up. What did they do? They replaced the mother board, and retested the entire system! Puget left nothing to chance, and although this resulted in a slight delay in shipping my computer, I had a great machine when it arrived! Like most folks, I have budget constraints, so it was important to me that I got the best machine I could afford. I used Puget's online chat and e-mail to ask questions. Each of my

Timely, indeed! I have a brand new Puget Systems Traverse 15" laptop sitting on my desk and I wanted to corroborate Jim's review. The new laptop was chosen to replace my old Dell 8400 PC, as well as to have the portability to take on the road. The hardware specs for my Traverse are a bit different: You can find them here . I have Photo Shop CS6 and MS Office 2010 installed. I ran a quick test to see the load time for a PSD file. The file size was 16-bit 900MB and it loaded in about 8 seconds. I am using an Intel 520 series 240GB SSD, so I am very pleased with the performance.