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I am firmly in the Mac laptop camp - I’ve had 7 in total and every one has been rock solid reliable - the first one I ever bought (a PowerBook in 2005) is still going.
used to trust time-machine, it let me down.
went to pro-tools, industry standard etc, etc, blah blah.
took a few months to look at alternatives ( realistic, affordable for my own level)
Reaper all the way,
works on my Mac, while it works,
works on my low spec, ultra portable win 10 laptop, ( basically a macbook air, with 4 G ram)
future proof----I don't know,??
but stems of every session, will mean at least a mix can be re-visited,
IMHO, its the best we can aim for;
YMMV.
cheers guys
andy k
I've been on a surface pro 4 for a couple of years now and still own an iMac. My next replacement will probably be a Lenovo. MBPs are nice but I'm getting tired of proprietary locked in tech. Imagine if Microsoft didn't provide Office solutions in OSX and iOS.
i have to say that my pal runs Studio One on a pretty powerful PC and every time I go there he has to reboot at least once ....usuaually more...maybe he just has a problem PC.
To date ...I’ve not had any real issues.
https://www.studiowear.co.uk/ -
https://twitter.com/spark240
Facebook - m.me/studiowear.co.uk
Reddit r/newmusicreview
Excel aside, Apple is superior in every way, imho ymmv etc etc
The problem with PCs is that Windows has always been rubbish, and with an ugly interface. Build a better system from scratch and try to not make it look like it was designed 30 years ago and I'm in.
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And in fairness Dell and Windows 10 was better than I remembered and Android was passable despite my sales guys moaning about using shit stuff. We persevered made some money and a year down the road we are back to all Apple and the warehouse got a couple of the Dell laptops.
You cant say we did not try and for many things if you want to dig deep then Windows or Linux will do the job if you want a nice machine it’s still Apple for me.
As for the so so called flexibility do too many hardware changes Microsoft will have you hanging on a premium line for service engineers to unlock and authenticate. Not sure if that’s better but my mate who uses his just for recording increased hard drives then went Ssd then the power supply went and the rest is a rant you don’t want to hear.
I use a Mac laptop for music because it is still unfortunately true that very few Windows laptops can be guaranteed * to perform well for recording due to (mainly) power saving routines causing glitches, however Apple don't have a modern desktop machine at all and when (or if) they release one it's going to cost about 10 grand.
* note I said guaranteed - most of them can be made to work reasonably well with a bit of fettling.