Click here to Download the Plex media server for Windows, Mac, Linux FreeBSD and more free today. News reports, podcasts, videos, and music. The availability of. This has been a raging debate for the past 30 years or so. There has been a healthy competition between the two platforms in an effort to corner a large segment of the market share. In the beginning, Macs targeted the creative artsy types and the platform had features and benefits specifically geared to favor musicians and photographers and graphic artist. It was not just the hardware that favored the artsy users. For many years it seemed that most of the software geared towards serious professional music production was developed for the Mac OS. Many who were indoctrinated in the beginning, are still very brand loyal today and continue to spread the mantra that Mac is better for music production. But nowadays, the PC has evolved and caught up with the Mac in terms of both hardware and available software. There are a few proprietary programs that will only run on a Mac, but there are competing programs for PC that pretty much do the same thing. So capability and software availability are no longer the primary consideration when trying to choose. In the old days, there were some compelling arguments favoring a Mac for music production. Today, the distinction is not so significant. It really boils down to personal preference and which platform you are more comfortable with. If there is a program that you want to use that only works on one platform, that could also be a deciding factor. Well, my down vote explanation was deleted, but down votes without comments are a huge pet peeve of mine. It is not a matter of opinion, but is verifiable by anyone willing to take some time and spec out some systems that Macs are not generally more expensive than PCs that have the same specs. Also, it is not wise, from a security standpoint, to consider OS X more secure simply because there are fewer exploits that target it. It's almost like security through obscurity, which is not considered security at all by professionals. – Dec 14 '15 at 23:29 •. @ToddWilcox Thanks for your explanation. I agree that it is not a good idea to forego the anti-virus and I stated that in my answer. I believe it to be an accurate statement that you are less likely to be a target using a Mac - but as I said in the answer I would still want protection. I have not compared the price spec for spec PC vs. Mac but will take your word for it. But still - you can buy PC's for less if for no other reason than they are easier to find on clearance in my experience. Where I shop for computers you can usually find PC's for under $400. Not so a Mac. – Dec 15 '15 at 8:42 •. One thing that no one has mentioned yet (I think) is the audio driver. On Windows, to get multiple audio drivers you either need to use the windows driver, which in general doesn't work very well with DAWs, has more latency and limited multi-device options, or use ASIO4ALL which allows you to combine the inputs into one device and work with low-latency, at the cost of sporadic stability issues and hardware incompatibilites OSX on the other hand comes straight out of the box with 'Aggregate Device' driver which allows you to easily combine multiple devices into one that can be fed to your DAW. Hardware producers also have a much easier job targetting a very limited Mac spectrum, which in general seems to make it all more stable. This still depends on your choice of hardware, though, so don't make a decision based just on that. There are people who had success working on Windows with multiple devices just fine, and there are cases where a device refused to work with the Aggregate Device driver on OSX as well (one case I remember was when the producer didn't choose to support it because it would mean a drop in quality IIRC). Another thing that comes to mind is that a lot of vendors see the potential in the Thunderbolt interface. Given how scarce it is in non-Apple devices, getting one might be your only choice for using some of the hardware as well. I've never experienced any of that on either the Mac or Windows side. CoreAudio (the Apple audio API that vendors must use) does have a different feel from DirectSound (the optional Windows API), but I've never had to use ASIO4ALL or even an ASIO (an API developed by Steinberg) driver. I've not experienced Windows drivers that don't 'work very well with DAWs' or have 'limited multi-device options'. I've had major driver and firmware problems with my newest Thunderbolt interface on my Mac, requiring two separate support calls. There's no advantage Mac here, in my experience. – Dec 15 '15 at 18:18 •.
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