Switched from PC to Mac: 1 year later. Is it REALLY better? 20-Year PC-DAW user's experience

After having some issues with a 2019 i9 MacBook Pro I switched to a MacBook Air M2 and finally to a Mac Studio Ultra (M1) and MB Pro M3. I can confirm everything you said in the video. Really the best choice I could ever make. The Sillicon Macs are just perfect. A game changer. Silent, powerful, efficient with great usability.

For all you gamer producers: there are way less games on Mac. And this is good. Because you should finish your song.

Every MAC user ever: 'Everything just works for me'.

This is so interesting... along with the diverse comments. I'm a lifelong, advanced PC user. I build my own with high specs per what is compatable with my DAW software and firmware. I have not had any issues as long as I've been in the business, and I also edit video regularly. It's when I made the switch to the Mac Pro trash can unit, that's when I had major issues. The spinning wheel of death was haunting me every single day. Needless to say, I switched back... with again, zero issues. So my experience is the exact opposite of yours. Hence why I find this topic interesting to read.

Same here, I gave up PC for 10 years ago before that I was a PC nerd. Now I use a Mac Studio M1

You'll love the Macintosh computer until you have your first Hardware failure and find that you can't repair it yourself.

PC/Windows guy for more than 20 years here. I always loved to build or renew a system. I was searching for new computers for church and tested a Mac mini for the first time in my life. From the first tests the M1 series got me. Completely quiet, fast for everything throwing on it, no driver or USB issues - it was just perfect. I got a Mac mini for myself and just plugged off my PC. Later I got a Macbook and as you mentioned Airdrop is so enjoyable to use. I came to conclusion, that since Apple M Chips are all same as powerful in their specific generation, all I need is a Macbook. Now Everything I did and do is running so smooth on only one system - a "Laptop" which is complete quiet, lightweight and portable. Wherever I go my whole Music Libraries are with me, ready to use. Crazy times.

I bought the M1 Mac Mini in 2020 with 16 gigs of RAM and 256 SSD. At first I loved it but after using it on projects I saw that it just wasn't quite enough. And I didn't see spending $2,500 just to get a functional machine so I bought a used I 7 9700 Dell computer for a couple 100 bucks; max out the ram to 32 gigs and put several 2 TB high speed SSD's in it and it is serving me well. Yes its slightly slower in some things but having the ability to upgrade my own ram and ssd's is priceless. Especially for the fraction of the cost. The M1 is my last mac unless Apple gives the user the ability to upgrade their own RAM and SSD with their RAM and SSD of choice.

We work with 22 PCs (Windows) in the studio (Nuendo and Cubase) and would never think of swapping them for Macs. That would be priceless. We digitize old tapes, vinyl, cassettes... We need so much special software, lots of hard drives and are much more flexible with Windows. Most importantly, 99% of our customers (cities, states, state libraries) are all on Windows. But you have to configure the PCs yourself and keep them clean.

I'm glad you made this video, it was weird that you didn't until now, I've been waiting. A month ago I also made the transition, and I don't regret it for a moment. The dumbest thing I've done, yes it cost me a lot, but damn everything works amazing! I saw that mixbus also uploaded a video about it. Just shows the change happening to all music professionals. So friends, whoever is debating, has the opportunity to make the change. Totally go for it, you won't regret it!

completely opposite experience here. Been an Apple user since 2011 and since I switched to the M1 Mac Studio Max I had a shitload of issues and I've never ever been experiencing so many crashes and glitches in Logic. Switching back to Windows as of today

And Apple doesnt care about legacy audio gear. One update and your whole studio can get bricked. Some engineers are stuck, running Pro Tools 9 with its audio interface system and control surface on obsolete mac os because when they upgrade, everything wont work. I wont throw my money at Apple.

13:33 It took me a second to realise dom didn’t say it will last him 45 years 😁

I was a Cubase (beta) tester in the 80s on Atari 🙂

I Changed to windows based computer in 2020 after 10 years of mac os...just because my mac won't start...I got my first job in the pandemic period and my mac won't work... so I got a pc, a very fast machine and installed windows 10 (now I'm on 11) and my daw and all plugins...everything works perfectly...don't had a single problem in 4 years now....I don't get the windows hate

Similar transition after >20 years with Windows. I simply couldn't deal with it anymore. It was fun when I was a kid but the older I am the less I want OS to get in my way. I'm getting a bit more juice and much lower latency from Mac mini that is 20(?) times smaller than my PC (3900x). It's insane. Mac ARM and MacOS are awesome for audio - and a few years ago I was an "apple hater" :D

Mac works like a charm but exchange files from Mac or IOS devices with other platforms is nightmare. Thats main reason why I still use Windows. The second reason are ram upgrade prices. You have to buy new Mac to upgrade ram. This is ridicoulos.

Good one! I use a MB Pro M1 Pro for about 3 years now and it still feels like a brand new blazing fast machine. Very happy with this purchase.

Think its easier to repair a pc yourself if your ram, grapics card, motherboard, etc need to be changed. Ive upgraded my three pc's multiple times without the need to buy a new computer and they just getting better and faster over the years.

I don't know what kind of PC you have, but my Ryzen 7 5700G works great. It has 32GB of RAM and a 3TB of internal storage. Total cost was under $1K. Have you had problems with e-cores being used instead of p-cores by the Mac? I have heard a lot of horror stories with people having audio spikes.