Stick with Mac or move to Windows?

[djd100]

How much is your Windows system worth after 5 years? Again, people conveniently ignore that the “more expensive” Apple hardware actually has resale value. windows hardware? Not so much.

Also, just priced out a Thinkpad. The same or more than I paid for my MacBook Air. Unless you get a Walmart pile of shit, Mac’s aren’t that much more, if at all.

Computers are not good investments LOL!

They do their jobs until they can't, and then they're replaced, and in my case always reinforced with Pro Tools or UA DSP.

 

[Sascha Franck]

So, who needs updates, our show and studio computers don't spend much time on the web, and have never had a problem in 30 years?

Most people need updates as they only use one computer.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Support goes back to 2018 right now.

All usually fine, but still, Apple renders their machines artificially obsolete left and right, most often there's zero technical reasons behind it.
So yes, My old Mac Pro is from 2010 and you may call it outdated (which it actually really isn't, multithread performance is still most excellent). But yet, I can run the most up to date Windows version or the most up to date Linux versions on it without any issues. And it's still a smoking machine. But I can't run any macOS version on it anymore since years already. I could've stretched OS support by patching some things, but that'd be no real support, more to the opposite.
And if I wanted to sell the thing, I'd possibly get €250 for it. For a computer that, brand new, was around 4k. That's a joke. And it's only worth that little because of the lack of support.