Windows vs Mac for music production

It is worth noting that Apple’s LOGIC PRO costs $200 and is a ONE-TIME fee. Free upgrades for life. Many other DAWs are 3 or 4 times that with added costs to upgrade.

I’ve been using Macs since 2011 and I’m totally converted. Granted, I haven’t used a Windows machine in nearly 15 years, but I love the Apple ecosystem.

Also, these Apple M-series chips are UNREAL. It can handle any number of tracks/plugins I throw at it without any hiccups. :slight_smile:

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I’ve used mac and pc trying to do music in collage n uni, Logic pro just worked. The interface worked. I didn’t have to fight it.

If I had loads of money, logic pro all the way.

Games? Pc.

Apples usp is ease of use.
The pc is better… if you put the effort in.

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After two PCs that I used for recording breaking down (and owning some Macs that still work since about 2006) I’ve switched to using a Mac Mini and Logic. Ain’t going back. PCs are made more poorly and don’t last as long. iPhones are crap, but all the Apple computers I have STILL work, even if the operating system is no longer supported/can’t be updated. Logic had a learning curve (coming from Reaper) but I’m pretty happy now.

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Out of curiosity, were they prebuilds or did you build them yourself? Because anecdotally, the PC I’m on that I built for audio work hasn’t been upgraded (except for a bigger SSD) for the last 6 years, and it’s still going VERY strong, albeit a bit slower than before. And my M1 Macbook is holding up just as well–but I couldn’t say the same about the Intel Macbook it replaced.

Prebuilds, I’ve found when troubleshooting others’ machines, can be VERY hit-or-miss.

Yeah, they were prebuilds, though I did upgrade some parts of my last one. This PC is going on 5 years, though, so pretty good. I’ve just learned to backup everything! Had some terrible drive issues I had to deal with a while ago before going all SSD.

Yeah, that’s why my main PC is all SSDs. Same reason Macs use SSDs, they’re a good bit more reliable because of the lack of moving parts (and they’re stupidly fast). I have a NAS for the hard drives for archival storage/backups, and there’s redundancy built in so if two drives fail, I’m all good.