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I have both. The Mackie has been consigned to the loft of hidden musical treasures ever since I got the XR-18. The point that @ESBlonde makes about using an external router is a good one although I tend to use an Ethernet cable between XR-18 and laptop for rock solid connection (I’m usually mixing from the stage). I have an Airport Express which I bought for the Mackie and that works fine with the XR-18 although, since I’m only using the wireless feature at soundcheck, the inbuilt router is adequate (but I wouldn’t rely on it during a gig).
If you are planning to use an iPad with the XR-18 then make sure that it is a later generation. I had a very old, spare, iPad (30 pin) which I used with the Mackie – this won’t run the XR-18.
Major differences? 18 inputs (16 mic channels) vs 8, 6 aux busses vs 4. I use a P16-M mixer for IEM which doesn’t take up any aux buses. Digital gain control (the physical controls on the Mackie move ridiculously easily). You can use the XR-18 to make multitrack recordings (I record our gigs).
The XR-18 is very cute, especially if you have the little carry case
In the early days we took a hardwired laptop as a fallback, but soon found that we didn’t need it.