- MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 MAC OS
- MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 UPGRADE
- MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 WINDOWS 10
- MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 PORTABLE
MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 UPGRADE
I’d say if you want to stay in the Mac World on a budget for your music and be compatible with an older Apollo sound card, you can still grab a MacPro 5,1 for about 1K and if it’s a lower figure cpu you can upgrade to a 12-core 3.46 for 2-300 more bucks.
MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 PORTABLE
On the portable side I use a Lenovo Thinkpad i7 quad-core 2.8 GHz with Win7 for on the road, quite a capable machine as well.
It is a 12-core beast and no session yet has put it to its knees (up to 160 tracks, 48KHz, with +10 virtual instruments, and boatloads of plugins). Still work on a 2011 Mac Pro 5,1 as my main rig with OS X Sierra. I’ve used 5 Mac machines (MacPro + MacBook Pro) and 4 Windows systems (2 towers and 2 laptops) in the last 15 years. I’d say it depends on how deep you got involved in the Mac world and are used not only to the hardware but the OS, and/or iOS peripherals and apps. I have been stuck on this decision for a while now. Do I get a new MacBook Pro 2018 (sell my current laptop to help fund) or spend a little more and build a beast of desktop Windows PC to compliment my ageing laptop (which I still need to gig)? I'd need to downsize the drive to 512GB, stay with 16GB RAM, but get one of those newer 6 core CPUs. And seems they thermal throttle worse than ever. I don't want that horrid keyboard, or that silly touch-bar. Well to get the same 1TB SSD I'd be looking at around $5,000 AUD - that's FREAKIN RIDICULOUS. I could really do with the extra CPU juice in newer CPUs. Fan noise isn't great either on these 2013 models.
Also thermal throttling kills me in the summer. There are massive multi core advantages and good single core improvements. It is still very fast compared to most recent computers but with Intel's new 8th gen chips, and 9th gen on the horizon. I use an original silver-faced Universal Audio Apollo with Thunderbolt addon card and absolutely need this to work flawlessly with the PC.Ĭurrently I'm using a maxed out late 2013 MacBook Pro 15 (16GB, 1TB SSD, 2.6 i7-4960HQ, GeForce GT 750M 2GB). SO I am thinking about a potentially over-clocked 8700k with watercooling to keep the noise down.
Although I also do a big of 3D modelling, video editing, graphic design so 6 or 8 cores won't be wasted. I am mostly concerned with SINGLE CORE performance as I use Ableton Live which appears to be poorly optimised for high core count CPUs with larger projects. I'd be looking at building a desktop PC with 8700k *(or 9th gen), 32GB RAM, NVMe SSD, and a GPU of some sort for other tasks / the odd game, watercooling, z370 w Thunderbolt 3 (I need my original UA Apollo to connect to it) However I am assuming this isn't the experience most people have? And sometimes will not post until after a few tries. It randomly needs to repair upon boot every now and then too. Also his Win10 PC is forever automatically updating and breaking software - and those updates take forever to install, not great when you need the studio computer in a snap. My friend has a beast of a desktop PC in his studio, but he struggles to get less than 512 samples with his Orion32 96k with random drop outs (I get 32 samples w my Mac and never missed a beat.). Or being a long term Mac fanboy am I going to regret this decision?
MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 MAC OS
Wondering how other people who have moved from Mac OS to Windows have found the journey? While I prefer Mac OS the hardware upgrade paths with Windows are so much better, and less expensive (in desktop world).
MAC OR PC FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION 2015 WINDOWS 10
Seems like people think Windows 10 has come a long way though, and MacOS has it's share of issues nowadays.
I used to use Windows back in the day, but moved over after having latency issues, performance issues, OS issues. But I really think Apple have lost the plot with their modern desktop choices and their laptops are overpriced and thermally constrained. My plan was to always sell my old Mac (great resale value) and upgrade. Their Macs are heading in the wrong direction. They seem to have gotten even more expensive in the last few years. I have been a long term Mac user, but Apple's higher-end desktop machines are just simply too expensive for me now.
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