What makes Macs superior for recording? Not being snarky just truly don't know
@laxu already answered most of it. Core Audio seems to be a much more robust protocol than even some dedicated ASIO drivers on Windows. Sure, most interfaces come with their dedicated drivers, but sometimes Core Audio outperforms them. Example: Our beloved L6 HX family. Coming with the lousiest interface drivers ever seen on earth, Core Audio allows you to run all things HX at roughly half (!) the latency (too bad you lose some other features, such as easily using different samplerates). On Windows, Asio4All sometimes does the same kinda thing, but it's way less robust.
Core Audio also has multiclient-ability built in. So you can just open up as many programs as you like and have them use the same low latency audio protocol. Under Windows, multiclient ASIO operation is still rare.
Also, there's the socalled "aggregate devices". macOS offers an option to virtually combine any number of audio interfaces connected and have that combination show up as a single device in your DAW. This can be excellent sometimes. Even without digitally syncing the two stereo I/O interfaces I had at that time (for professional operation, you would likely want to sync them), I was able to record 4 tracks at once, which was just great for a vox, doublebass, git/vox trio. I also used this occasionally when I wanted to quickly add the Helix to my usually used interface, so I could feed different monitors for patch design purposes without any recabling issues.
In general, while there's certainly some exceptions, Core Audio (including low latency operation by nature) really "just works".
Also, while not necessarily superior for recording per se, but especially in case you're starting out: Garageband comes free with any Mac. And there's nothing even remotely comparable in the Windows world (and yes, I am aware of Cakewalk). GB is very easy to get into, comes with built in tutorial stuff and allows you to get started in pretty much no time (especially given that low latency performance is built into the system). And yet, it's still quite capable. There's also a 1:1 compatible version for iOS.
But that's not all there is to it. Once you outgrow GB, you can switch to Logic. It'll load your GB projects absolutely identically (GB is using the same core code as Logic by now) - and it's also looking sufficiently similar so you won't have a tough time to do this next step (by default, some advanced settings sometimes confusing new users are even switched off in Logic, so it'll feel even more familiar compared to GB).
Seriously, all that is such a clever eco-system, it's tough to beat. Even some 8y old kids can already have fun slapping some loops together in GB on an iPad (and yeah, they may even learn a thing or two instead of just clicking around) and as there's always a direct path to the next bigger thing, you will never outgrow things.
Add to this that Logic is still less than 250 bucks - and at least so far, you only pay once and get all updates for free (no idea whether that may change one day, the recently released Logic/iOS version turned out to be a subscription model already, so we may see more of that creeping into the Apple-verse). I bought Logic Pro X in 2014 I think (I owned all previous versions starting with 3.0 too, back into their Windows days...) and haven't paid a single penny for any update. And there's been tremendous updates ever since. So, at least on paper, you could use all the money saved here (most other companies charge you at least around 100 bucks a year for updates, should you want/need to stay up to date) to buy the next Mac - and end up not paying more than for a comparable Windows system.
Speaking of the latter: There really aren't comparable Windows systems, at least not in the laptop world. Look at a Macbook Air. NO (!) moving parts inside anymore, which obviously is fantastic, there's no (potentially noisy) fans anymore, sucking dust into the machine, degrading functionality (and adding noise) after a while. Also, battery life is just fantastic. In case you don't go too wild, a MBA should cover an entire day of full work without having to look for a power outlet (and it's getting only better with the "sister" model, namely the smallest Macbook Pro, which is offering yet noticeably longer battery life).
Now, I sound like an Apple ad. In fact, I'm the polar opposite. I hate many things Apple with a passion. I'm typing this here on a 2010 Mac Pro, possibly the best consumer computer ever designed. Regarding performance, It'd likely be fine to suit my needs until the end of my days. But by now, I pretty much need to purchase something new, simply because it's not supported by Apple anymore.
Yeah, I could possible "hack" some more life into it using OpenCore, but as I'm still involved in some betatesting here and there, that's not a great idea.
I could as well just "freeze" the computer and keep using it as is. And while that's something I will do at some point in time, it's simply not suitable for a computer you're also using for internet activities. For instance, I already can't install the latest versions of some browsers on this machine anymore, as they're requiring a later OS version. That's pretty bad. So far, I'm doing fine, though, but EOL for this machine is getting much closer.
Fwiw, that planned obsolescence thing is something Apple is a true master of. Always have been like that, regardless whether it's their computers, their phones or their tablets. They will render them obsolete at one point in time, even in case there's zero technical reasons.
Now, I can understand that to a certain extent, after all, Apple lives off hardware sales, their own software is just way too cheap to generate any decent profit (see Logic). But in a world where sustainability is one of *the* key things we should take care of, I'd much rather pay whatever kind of fee and be allowed to use my computer a lot longer (as long as there's no technical reasons for support to become unrealistic).
As things are right now, when you buy a computer from Apple, they more or less guarantee you 5 years of full software support. After that, it might be game over. Now, you can usually keep using older macOS versions for a while, but let's have a look at Logic. The current version requires an OS no older than the second to latest version - so that's one year back, which you could add to those 5 years. So that's 6 years of a fully supported Logic, no more. Sure, you can keep working with an older version, but once there's reasons for you to be up to date, you'll have to buy a new computer. And there's little choices but to buy another Mac because by now you're deep in their ecosystem.
Etc.
In my book, all this sucks big time. Personally, I more or less need to stick with Apple, but I don't particularly like it.
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