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Mostly yes. Apple has traditionally been the computer for creatives. In recent years, they've let their pro hardware and software lines languish and I think th

Mostly yes. Apple has traditionally been the computer for creatives. In recent years, they've let their pro hardware and software lines languish and I think they've lost quite a bit of ground since you can buy a windows computer that runs the same editing software for quite a bit cheaper. Pro film and audio production people also have huge budgets, as evidenced by the $43000 reference monitor they compared the new display to in the keynote.

PascLeRasc 7y ago
Macs are so, so, so good for audio, nothing else comes close. Super low-latency out of the box, no drivers to install for either interfaces or MIDI controllers, and compatibility with Firewire and Thunderbolt interfaces on every machine built in the last 10 years. CoreAudio is incredibly stable and performant thanks to a double-buffer queue [1]. Logic Pro is an incredible feature-complete DAW for $200 that competes with Digital Performer ($500), Ableton ($750) and Pro Tools ($600). [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf
- village-idiot 7y ago
  Not if you use the regular audio channels. Both my MacBook Pro and Mac mini suffer really bad audio stutter because of the T2 chip.
- jcelerier 7y ago
  As someone who develops a DAW, that's really not my experience. With the very same soundcard (so far RME, MOTU, Apogee) on the very same hardware, I get consistently lower latencies on Windows with ASIO than CoreAudio.
- timc3 7y ago
  That’s not really true because Windows does come close, and I say that as someone whose every day DAW is running on MacOS. I also have Windows on other machines to compare it to. Out of the box a Mac is fine as is but a well configured well spec’d Windows box is really good once paired with a decent interface.
timc3 7y ago
There are plenty of professionals working in content creation everyday that don’t have that kind of budget to spend $43000 on a monitor or even the budget for a well specified new Mac Pro.

PascLeRasc 7y ago

Macs are so, so, so good for audio, nothing else comes close. Super low-latency out of the box, no drivers to install for either interfaces or MIDI controllers, and compatibility with Firewire and Thunderbolt interfaces on every machine built in the last 10 years. CoreAudio is incredibly stable and performant thanks to a double-buffer queue [1]. Logic Pro is an incredible feature-complete DAW for $200 that competes with Digital Performer ($500), Ableton ($750) and Pro Tools ($600). [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf

village-idiot 7y ago
Not if you use the regular audio channels. Both my MacBook Pro and Mac mini suffer really bad audio stutter because of the T2 chip.
jcelerier 7y ago
As someone who develops a DAW, that's really not my experience. With the very same soundcard (so far RME, MOTU, Apogee) on the very same hardware, I get consistently lower latencies on Windows with ASIO than CoreAudio.
timc3 7y ago
That’s not really true because Windows does come close, and I say that as someone whose every day DAW is running on MacOS. I also have Windows on other machines to compare it to. Out of the box a Mac is fine as is but a well configured well spec’d Windows box is really good once paired with a decent interface.

timc3 7y ago

There are plenty of professionals working in content creation everyday that don’t have that kind of budget to spend $43000 on a monitor or even the budget for a well specified new Mac Pro.