RE: What computer do you have?
September 25, 2016 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2016 at 9:24 pm by johan.)
I'm probably no help but I'll comment anyway 'cause ya nevah know...'
Like you, I do pro audio stuff. I'm fortunate enough to be able to have a dedicated music room in the house. And in that room I have a recently built i7 based rack mount PC. I'd have to look up what motherboard I used as well as all the other specifics. The bottom line is that machine is purpose built for doing pro-audio production with a Windows based software that I've used for well over 20 years now. Its the software I have and the software I know, so I built the machine to suite it.
That said, I'm typing this on a macbook pro. When I was doing computer repair work, I bought my first mac so I could learn the system. Many years later I realized we had bought a new $500-ish PC based laptop for my wife every 12 to 18 months because the old one was spent and not worth fixing, even with a pro tech (i.e. me) living in the house. Meanwhile my macbook was 8 years old and still going strong. So even though it cost more than twice as much, we went out and bought my wife a macbook air. She's still using it more than 5 years later and its still just as fast now as it was then.
My original macbook pro got to the point where it could no longer be updated so we replaced it with a new macbook pro. It cost a fortune compared to most PC's but I didn't bat an eyelash because I know I'll still be using this long after most PC's made today are on the scrap heap.
So the long and short of it is if you can manage to use a mac for pro-audio (and macs to great at that BTW) then I'd say suck it up and buy a mac. I've been a long time user of Sonar for my audio exploits and they are just now getting ready to issue their very first beta version on a Mac. If I wasn't a Sonar guy, I'd have switched my studio over to Mac long ago.
Like you, I do pro audio stuff. I'm fortunate enough to be able to have a dedicated music room in the house. And in that room I have a recently built i7 based rack mount PC. I'd have to look up what motherboard I used as well as all the other specifics. The bottom line is that machine is purpose built for doing pro-audio production with a Windows based software that I've used for well over 20 years now. Its the software I have and the software I know, so I built the machine to suite it.
That said, I'm typing this on a macbook pro. When I was doing computer repair work, I bought my first mac so I could learn the system. Many years later I realized we had bought a new $500-ish PC based laptop for my wife every 12 to 18 months because the old one was spent and not worth fixing, even with a pro tech (i.e. me) living in the house. Meanwhile my macbook was 8 years old and still going strong. So even though it cost more than twice as much, we went out and bought my wife a macbook air. She's still using it more than 5 years later and its still just as fast now as it was then.
My original macbook pro got to the point where it could no longer be updated so we replaced it with a new macbook pro. It cost a fortune compared to most PC's but I didn't bat an eyelash because I know I'll still be using this long after most PC's made today are on the scrap heap.
So the long and short of it is if you can manage to use a mac for pro-audio (and macs to great at that BTW) then I'd say suck it up and buy a mac. I've been a long time user of Sonar for my audio exploits and they are just now getting ready to issue their very first beta version on a Mac. If I wasn't a Sonar guy, I'd have switched my studio over to Mac long ago.
