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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?
#Daw for mac and windows 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).
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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.