At least Windows gives you the blue screen of death, the Mac just restarted with a black screen, the NERVE! OK, all it took was running Studio One with a MOTU interface on a MacBook Pro after one of those elements getting an upgrade to make it crash repeatedly multiple times. I know there are fanboys out there saying that “if it cannot be done on a Mac, it does not need to be done in music/life…” and that “Macs never crash”. To top all that, every time Apple upgrades its OS, software vendors and hardware manufacturers are in a race to keep up, leaving rigs broken for a few months, or people waiting those months before upgrading the OS. Unless you are tied to logic, a Windows machine is just fine, and more affordable. Sure, it takes two power supply bricks, but not bad for frequently moving production environments, and hey, it has a built-in screen already!

You will not find a Macbook out there that can do that. In the meantime, we have here a laptop from vendors like Tuxedo that runs desktop CPUs, can be extended to 128GB RAM and has FOUR M2 slots for a total of up to 32TB super fast storage. Not a whole lot of components will be able to be swapped. The less expensive Macs will have the problem of limited upgrade paths. (That is just statistics, studios who can afford a multi-computer maxed out rig are not on forums like this asking what to buy…) However, a lot of them will be very expensive, and a maxed out configuration will be rather unaffordable for people like us who seek advice on online forums.

When/if the new Mac Pros come out with those chips, they will definitely be studio power rigs. Macs have a very powerful chipset with their M series under the hood.

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