I’m having a Mac as my network server and PC as my DAW. More important is: what do you like? If you like Mac, get one, if you’re familiar with PC, go for it! Unfortunately old habits remains: there’s always people who tells you: Mac is better!īut in my opinion: while PCs may be better by numbers, the difference isn’t that great. You’ll always get better bang for your $$$ when buying a PC. And unfortunately Mac has only one manufacturer, which is holding is monopoly. Operating systems on both systems (while they are different: one Unix-based, one created after principles of VMS) are basically as good for DAW work (PC even has a slight advantage here). Result? Hardware architecture is the same. They changed their operating system to Unix-based. At the same time what happened to Macs? Their hardware architecture became a copy of PC. And at some point there became a good enough OS available for PCs too: Windows NT (and it’s derivates: XP … and finally W7). What happened after this? PC architecture evolved. Result? Software developers concentrated their efforts on Mac. Also Macs did have a superior hardware architecture. Why? Simple: 25 years ago there was good enough OS available for MAC but not for PC. Yes! Something like 15 years ago Macs was the ultimate platform for audio/video applications.
