Stick with Mac or move to Windows?

paisleywookiee said:
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Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub with SSD Enclosure

Mac mini M4 stand and hub with built-in SSD enclosure, front-facing ports, and USB-A support to expand connectivity in a compact design.
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This is a pretty elegant solution to a problem that should not exist. You can save hundreds of dollars by getting this and a good 2+ TB M.2 drive vs buying it from Apple.

Apple can forever go fuck themselves for not using standard M.2 drives especially in their desktop units. I can somewhat forgive it for laptops, but never for desktops.
 
laxu said:
This is a pretty elegant solution to a problem that should not exist. You can save hundreds of dollars by getting this and a good 2+ TB M.2 drive vs buying it from Apple.

Apple can forever go fuck themselves for not using standard M.2 drives especially in their desktop units. I can somewhat forgive it for laptops, but never for desktops.
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I agree. I miss the good old days of buying a bare quad core Mini, then loading it with RAM and swapping to an SSD.
 
I use both almost everyday. If I could choose to use just one it would be a M series Mac. I have a M4 MacBook Air ($1200 model with 16GB memory, 10 core GPU, 512GB SSD) and it runs Logic Pro, Final Cut, Lightroom, etc. much better than my old loaded intel iMac 5K all in a tiny battery powered laptop. If you’re running huge sessions you might want to bump up the specs, but for most users a base model is probably going to work great.
 
I'm using both (for different things)
Owned a PC shop for 20+ years.

Both systems have their plusses and minuses.
Worked with reaper on both and had no issues

Switched to the Mac (which i used mainly for my photography and video) for logic and it's much easier to create aggregrated audio devices.

I'm using an x32 but also a 1820 for external gear and a small spiff interface. All seen as one big interface.

When logic introduced the session players for me as a home recording hobbyist (always open for collabs) it was game over. For starting points it's so much faster.

Horses for courses and for creatives i feel more at home at macs .

The m series are insanely fast
Im using a m4 pro (upgraded for the screen) it's very handy to have everything on one machine when moving around a lot. At home i connect it to a dock with one cable and ready to go.

Time machine alsof gives peace
Had one laptop die on me due to human failure. And was up and running again in 2 hours.
 
Omg, stay as far away from windows as you can. Windows 11 caused me a ton of grief.
It all started about a year ago, maybe a little more.
The gist of it is updated to garbage spec . Hardware = fault #1
So I started getting all of my software moved, dongle for every plugin = another sin but not win related.
The kill shot was I loaded the driver for HX Stomp = Bingo, do not pass go do not collect $200 , roughly spent that on the hardware.

Now here is where the plot thickens of course.
Rabbit hole , Reddit, Line 6 Forum - by the way also total and absolute garbage
Windows couldn’t fix a sandwich.
11 = 8 or whatever.
The moral of the story is I did all of that so I could downgrade back to 10.
Windows 11 is good if you run Fort Knox or somewhere there is actually money.
 
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