During the first five years of making and then tweaking Don’t Kill Me More Than Twice I had serious problems with my DAW, Sonar Producer. It would crash without warning several times per evening and more often than not autosave hadn’t had the time to autosave anything. Plus Windows absolutely refused to kill the process once it had crashed; the only way to restart Sonar after a crash was to reboot the machine. Quite the disruption to the workflow. One Saturday night I was so pissed off that I was ready to immediately go out and buy a Mac Pro for my last money (pre trash can era). Since everything was closed on Sunday, I didn’t. And by Monday I had come to my senses. But the thought lingered for two years or so. In 2012 I got myself a MacMini just to try it out a bit. It was cool and all, but I didn’t make the change back then. However, the Sonar problems continued, and in late 2013 I got myself a fully upgraded MacBook Air to seriously try out how it’s done the Apple Way. This time things felt right, and I found myself considering either a new trash can Mac Pro or an iMac. Turned out that the 27″ upgraded iMac’s specs were slightly better for making music than the low end Mac Pro’s, so I ended up getting a really nice iMac in December. And the rest is history. I was totally committed to the Apple ecosystem. I now use Logic (and occasionally play a bit with Ableton Live), and I have not had a single problem.
Works like junan vessa.
And interestingly, Logic is the cheapest DAW I have purchased. A one time 200€ (or so) payment, and a lifetime of free upgrades. I paid some 500€ for Sonar, and then a couple of more hundreds every other year when I upgraded. So Apple being expensive isn’t always the case.