yeah this is really the best of both worlds quite honestly a hybrid set up is great!
it takes away the GPU from being the main limiting problem on all macs “foot dragging by Apple for 10 years“ that has held us back for so long even on their high end m3 machines!! (better but still meh for the price)
It kind of takes that problem of gpu power out of the equation and “it just works“
I even was able to cancel my redshift license because it’s so clunky over there on the other side of the fence
you have to either use deadline or team-render
it’s a pain in the ass Octane “just works“ & i don’t even have to interact with the pc - it is running headless (hdmi loopback dongle) - just install the octane daemon and setup the network.
Otoy needs to really hype this fact up!!!
I suspect once we get to M4/5 era ….we might not need the pc so much….time will tell
For now “hybrid” is the way to go!!