11 Reasons why Recording on a PC is better than MAC! 

Anyone who's worked on both platforms knows they both have strengths and weaknesses over each other. Regardless of which one you use, they will both inevitably piss you off royally.

Only real reason I prefer PCs is because when something breaks,I like to be able to fix it. My GPU died a few months ago,all I did was get a new one,plug it in,update drivers and bam. If I can't fix it I don't want it

Mac guy here, not butt hurt and generally agree with what you said. I personally just like the Mac OS (despite a few enraging moments). As someone who also works in IT and deals with a roughly equal amount of PCs and Macs, they both suck in their own ways, Mac is just what I'm most comfortable and can work fluently in. The most important thing is using a system you know and like to use, for me, my PC is an auxiliary piece of equipment I use if there is something my Mac doesn't do, like a few plugins and of course gaming.

Thanks Glenn for the wonderful information!!! Keep kicking ass!!!

Based on Glenn's recent track record, we might see a video on [insert number] of reasons why recording on a MAC is better than PC. The possibility is there.

The Mac Pro is insanely priced… I do my music production with a Mac mini, and for the most part, works great.

It's always fun listening to Glenn ranting. Also fun how only the plugin part was about actual recording. Fun video, weird title :D

I enjoyed this. I've been a PC guy my whole life building my own. I recently bought the 14" MacBook pro and it's nuts how fast it is. Full disclosure though I don't do just music. I do photo and video work as well.

My girlfriend, a wonderfully tolerant woman, wandered into the living room just as your video was concluding with that elegant belch. Did great things for improving my standing with her as a cultured, educated 50 year old. Great video, anyhow.

Glen: Clearly lays out reasons he can judge the experience on both platforms Butthurts: "You're just biased against macs because you don't know how awesome they are." Smarties: "I wonder how many days before the "reasons to pick macs" video comes out"

Glenn, your videos just keep getting more and more solid. Love the bluntness, love the honesty and love the style. “30 frames per second LOOKS LIKE SHIT!” Gems in every episode 😂

This was awesome! I upgraded my drum room and synth room computers to Windows 11 and everything still works just grand.

Spot on. I run both but my main focus is video editing. The m1 line is great with software built on Apple architecture (like DaVinci Resolve) but the lack of customization capabilities or even things like the number of accessible ports makes the Apple experience sometimes frustrating. Dongles, anyone?

Im a Mac user that loves your videos, I will say I've seen plenty of professional studios being ran on Mac minis, the new M1 Macs for what they offer are vastly cheaper than the intel Macs from yesteryear. But, anyone that advocates for "Right to Repair" shouldn't' disagree with you in regards to serviceability. Thanks for the video! thoroughly enjoyed it!

Not butt hurt at all, but after decades of PC use (also building, etc.), I switched to Mac and found the experience much better. Just my personal preference. I agree however that the whole lifestyle nonsense is complete bullshit. That said, my Macs have always lasted longer than my PCs (which I still use for some tasks). I'm currently writing this on a 2013 iMac that I hammer on a daily basis and it isn't even close to dying, which pretty much mitigates the cost difference. With PCs, I was replacing or rebuilding every couple years. Bottom line, like anything else it all comes down to what you prefer. There is no wrong choice.

great video mr. Glenn , love the solar T in the back, how it works on you studio project, greeting from Ecuador

I started on and have been using Logic for a decade now, and its just what I'm used to using. I'd been using Macbook Pros throughout that time, and they'd had a variety of issues because of their Intel cpus, prices etc. This year I picked up the Macbook Air M1 model and for what it does and the price it sells at it is a fantastic little machine. The only problem I have with it is the exclusively USB C ports, but the compromise to that is a USB dock.

I would never tell anyone that they NEED a Mac for audio production, that’s ridiculous of course. However, I did just shell out a ton of cash on the new MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip which is an insanely impressive system. The amount of performance you’re able to without ever heating up or sacrificing battery life is what sold me on it, especially since I’m someone who likes to jam out with lots of modular synths and effects that can be CPU intensive. There’s also some benefits to the Apple ecosystem, for example easily using your iPad as a second monitor and sending texts on your Mac, both of which will be extremely useful for me. Apple is also much better than Microsoft when it comes to user privacy. So yeah, you can make music with both and be perfectly fine, but there’s lots of reasons that I’m excited to get my first Mac laptop that isn’t from my company :) I’m planning to make this computer last 10 years at least.

I've not done AE "for a living" for several years so am now just (like your primary sub base) a home recordist and loving it. Re the firewire comment. Bang on! I have no reason to upgrade my FF400 at this point. My old rig had an integrated FW 400 port that was a VIA driver and apparently wasn't supposed to work but it did. I did have a SIIG pci-e card (with the crucial Ti chipset - My old MBook PRO uses the Ti chipset, credit to MAC) and added it to the new DAW I built last xmas and life is good.

I discovered your channel recently and I think that its amazing, thank u

You’ve got several points there, but I have Logic Pro X and i love working with it. I’ve recorded on PC too, mostly Reaper, and I wasn’t getting the same results, but thats mainly because all the great Logic plugins that are included (for only € 200 by the way).

Here's a shocking 3rd idea: build a PC and install Linux on it.

I love the blooper reels at the end. You are truly the Jackie Chan of audio tutorials.

Very cool! Love your content!

Reaper is now available for Linux. Try that. Its like Mac, just that its free and Open Source.

I would genuinely love to see a "Recording in Linux" episode. The software is there (eg Linux distros dedicated specifically for audio recording, DAWs like Ardour, Harrison Mixbus, Bitwig Studio, Reaper and others) as well as the hardware (plenty of modern Class Compliant USB audio interfaces which means you do not need to worry about drivers). What Linux probably still lacks today is the plethora of VST plugins that Mac and windows have (although there is a good variety of LV2 plugins that may do the job).

Excellent video, Glenn!

Watching this on my 11 year old MBP that I also record and mix all my projects on, but I do agree with a lot of the points in your video and the annoyances. It seems like the older Macs might actually be better built, and after an SSD upgrade this one is still damn fast but it admittedly lacks sufficient horsepower for anything other than home use. Also, I might be a bit stuffed when they withdraw Catalina support. I'll get a PC then if i can run Logic on it! ;)

Apple has been about lifestyle for decades, not just recently. Everything else you said is bang on correct. I've used both platforms, but PC is infinitely better, more flexible, and economically sound.

Well-recorded burps. The epitomy of a shoiny production. Thank you Glenn! I mean for the video.

Brilliantly put Glenn!

You're just awesome! Loved this!!

A lot of great points made here, although with a lot of bias lol! However, in the end, the best piece of advice that should be given to anyone is to simply use whatever system you are most comfortable using. Personally I do actually prefer to use a Mac, but not because I’m stuck up or anything. Its just because I’m more comfortable with the work flow of Mac OS over windows. Also after having used several different daws on the market, including being protools certified, I genuinely preferred the workflow of Logic over protools and many of the others. So yes while there are many advantages to having a pc system over a Mac system, in the end you should use what you are most comfortable with. Nothing more, nothing less. And regardless of what system you’re on, or what daw you’re using, I think we can all agree on this: let’s all make some kick ass music!

It really doesn't take much anymore considering a 6 core processor and 16GB of ram are pretty much the new base model for just about everything. You can get a lot done with that. Hell more than that is pretty much overkill for audio recording.

I'm one of those "Cakewalk guys", having used it since the MIDI only, original version. It didn't take much to convince clients that they were in good hands, and I worked on many high end projects with it over the years. But convincing other productions that it would work was a different story. When OMF files came into the picture, I was finally able to say to industry peers, "send me the project and I'll send it back". I feel like that's the last hurdle with audio sequencing tech: interchangeable projects that also, somehow, contain the processing chain. As it stands, you'd all have to own and have the same VST's and DAWs. Anyway, what a wonderful time to be a musician with the patience to really learn audio mixing/engineering. What the future may hold is really mindboggling, I think.

Your video on this subject is absolute truth. I subbed.

I think the inevitable "11 Reasons why Recording on a MAC is better than PC" video is going to be a spicy one. As an almost perpetual PC user, I am on the verge of setting my Windows 10 PC on fire due to frustration. Its way more than bad drivers, bad energy settings, or not being able to have the fucking wifi on while tracking without drop outs, pops, clicks and the whole orchestra of glitches that Windows so generously provides. Yes, I have ASIO, yes I upgraded my interface, yes I've optimized the energy plan. I have reinstalled Windows at least a half a dozen times and nothing, no improvement, ndis.sys DPC routine still shits itself, I have more hours on latencymon than on Skyrim. I work in design and I'm used to multitasking between Photoshop, illustrator, and After Effects with ease on the company MAC and I occasionally steal a few hours here and there working on my music on it and its just such a breeze. I wouldn't even dream about trying to multitask in that way on my home PC. It is very true what Glenn says about MAC and the fact that it just works and that if you can't afford to fuck around and waste time troubleshooting every possible variable, MAC its the way to go.

I have a friend who has a Mac... "It just works" was his mantra, as if PC's are likely to explode or leak oil. I have yet to experience a crash on my PC using Reaper, and that's with some exotic third party plugins.

Good points. I do think the mac mini is fairly priced and might be a good audio workstation. I’m currently using my home build pc though.

def my fave video you've ever made, cheers!

"Lifestyle brand" made me lolololol All the recording/production I've ever done has been on PC. Nothing against Macs, I just never had any problems with PC, have no reason to switch. Especially because I know how to use ASIO. I owe you a debt, Glenjamin.

One doesn’t need a Mac to do music. With that said, I prefer the Mac environment. It isn’t perfect but I prefer it over the windows environment. Also, the arm processor are game changers.

Thanks Glen! This was a very useful video that potentially will save kids a lot of money! I was afraid you might jump on the mac train for good when you started the hackintoch project. Very relieved now👍

I got the M1 Mac Mini for about $1k with the 16GB of RAM and have been able to run Studio One, Logic, and DaVinci Resolve just fine. The plugins I have, have not been converted to run natively yet, but are working with Rosetta. I got a Mac just because I already had the rest of the ecosystem, but I wasn’t a huge macOS fan. To be honest, I agree with all the points here, with the caveat that you can score a decently priced Mac with the Mini. I had been thinking of building a PC o a Hackingtosh, but given the running totals for the equipment I had listed, I went with the mini and saved myself some time. I still used PCs for work, so you won’t find me at Starbucks. If you don’t know what to get, let your pocket decide, either way you should be good to go with either option. Great video Glen!

I'm seriously enjoying how much love for Linux is in the comments here. It's such a great system!

I switched to Mac in 05 because there was no way to use multiple interfaces (before aggregate drivers) my older 2012 Mac pro 8 core 128 gb ram, 6 hdd like I have is a great machine and I've never had to do anything to it since I've had it except use it.. tire right about apple now, but the old ones are still pretty good

You convinced me! My next computer will definitely be a PC now! I’m still new to audio production so forgive me if this is a dumb question but my audio interfaces are registered with my mac, is it going to be difficult to change them to be registered with my PC?

14:55 minutes in " If your computer can handle call of duty , it can handle a fukin amp sim" so funny glenn! best line in the whole video . I love your content man . long time listener , first time caller

As a guy that had built and sold computers for many years I can say that overall PC is superior when you count the price:performance ratio. For the money PC has always been better value, but prior to the windows 10 release using a PC for music was hit and miss. For me and my i7 rig I built in 2012 using Studio One with my windows rig sucked. That said, I am getting myself a new Mac Mini with the M1 chip (for photo, music and videos). For the price this new M1 processor is killing it. Hopefully it will be all it's cracked up to be and most companies will have their software programmed for it rather than running through the windows translator thingy. If you're on the fence I'd say get a PC, it's way less of an investment for the performance.

Sadly, a lot of the issues with Apple are becoming issues with PCs too. Except it tends to be more poorly implemented. Dell and HP and Lenovo are soldering more and more hardware to the boards. Brands like Acer, Alienware, Origin, Razer, etc are trying to become lifestyle brands too. And as you've said before: if you don't want to have driver issues and just have your audio gear work, use a Mac.

Can't wait to hear this weeks VC. Gotta buy some popcorn for that. It might even be a full "butthurt of the week" special episode.

The only thing I can notice is a shift in pick attack. Some pickups seem ''faster'' than the others. Thank you for this comparison! :)

Next video: “11 reasons why recording on Linux is better than windows”

I've been using Windows my entire life. A couple months back I switched from my super old shitty PC to M1 Mac mini, it works great and does everything I need it to do. I don't hate neither PC or Mac, I just enjoy having a good fast computer.

I hope you are making good ad revenue Glen. I had 4 ad breaks in this video!

Great video as usual Glenn! Would you like to take a look at Linux and recording on Linux? I know you once said there's no reason to use Linux instead of Windows for music production, but it's still worth trying, there's a great channel about audio production on Linux called Unfa, this guy is mainly electronic music producer, despite being clearly a metalhead, but he records live instruments and voice as well. Most of Windows advantages over Mac mentioned in this video will also apply to Linux, especially free plugins (technically this video is not only about Windows, but I guess it was mostly about it, except for the Hackintosh of course). Also, if I understand correctly, on Linux you can use multiple inferfaces at the same time, which is possible on Mac but not on Windows, at least using JACK Audio Connection Kit.

This video made me feel so utterly satisfied and content Glen. I agree 100% with every point you make. I can't stand Apple's sleazy and dictatorial business model with their planned obsolescence totally responsible for stuff going to landfill.

You dont have to pay double price when you record on a pc. Better specs. Lower price. Works fine . Apples prices are absolutely ridiculous!

Thank you Glen for being awesome.

Ya know Glenn, I might not agree with some of the things you put into your videos! But you DO give A LOT of insight & advice to all of us that IS very helpful. And THAT I thank you for & appreciate every-single one of your videos... Please keep up this great work, and rock on!

Coffee shop hipsters can do it because they have a MacBook battery can last for hours and hours :). I still have nightmares about my Dell and HP laptops which would last maximum for two hours and sometimes shutdown unexpectedly. And that is without any significant load. I bought my first MacBook Pro in 2010 the same year I bought my HP laptop. My 2010 MacBook Pro is still working(only replaced the battery four years ago), my HP laptop lasted for two years before battery died, and display started to show artifacts. I have never had any other laptops other than Apple since then.

I've been using Mac since I got a Mac book for my high school graduation back in 2011. I really like the workflow with OSX. If I prefer PC, I would still be using that. My composition professor in college always said "It doesn't matter what you use, as long as you can provide results." So I use what I like and that can get me the results I need. It also helps getting discounts on Apple products, too.

It's been this way for 16 years. This is a great video. Lotta laughs along the way :)

This dude knows what he talking about. Really refreshing seeing another music nerd also being a tech nerd. In many ways it comes hand in hand, especially in music production.

Recording on Linux is God-level... Everything is free with the penguin buds!

The base model M1 Mac Mini is pretty impressive for the cost though.

Hey Glenn. Love your show! I bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad after watching Adam Steele do a video on running Reaper on a $150 laptop a couple years back. I threw a 1tb SSD in it and it works great. It has 12gb RAM, which is more than I’ll ever need. The only thing that’s hurting my workflow is the CPU, which maxes at maybe 2.7 ghz. I can do smaller projects fine if I render or freeze tracks and max the buffer rate. All the tricks to max your cpu I’ve researched and applied to my workflow. As I move onto larger projects I feel like I might need something more powerful. I’ve been thinking of upgrading to a PC Desktop, or maybe a Sweetwater Creation Station that fits right into my rack or something. Do you think that’s worth it, or maybe just try upgrading the CPU in what I already have?

Good video glen

Now with Apple Silicon, I would say that laptops are even cheaper than PC, if you compare similar configurations of course. We will see what they will drop on desktop workstation stuff.

I sense a corresponding "11 Reasons Why Recording on a Mac is better than a PC" video coming shortly. Regardless, you really need to update your performance generalities given the new M1max chip. Your price points complaints are still relevant. I am a PC guy but I am not religious about this stuff.

Absolutely Epic! Final comment about getting good with what you have is key! Just my .02 for those thinking that building a pc is too much for them: I've built PC's since the early 90's and then you had to do a lot of things to get them to work right including setting dip switches, matching voltages, and setting up sectors/formatting hard drives manually from a floppy disc. None of that applies anymore. Building a PC now is so easy that it has lost that sense of accomplishment to get one working properly. That isn't bragging - you will unlikely find any parts that can be plugged in wrong. With a tiny bit of help picking components from somewhere like microcenter you can build (plug stuff together) a great machine for a lot less than you may have imagined.

Great video and thoughts! I use both Mac and PC for audio production; both work for me. All points are totally true! What doesn't work for me is the spinning frames in this video! I felt like the drunk, out-of-time bassist you mentioned! Amazing content and video production otherwise!

Hey man how about doing music production on a Linux Ubuntu system? The main advantage is that the operating system is open source, free and run in any hardware. It would be amazing to see you put that to the test and get your opinion!

I have to say. I've been custom building my PC towers through HP, and they're pretty bad ass. Their latest Omens are very very nice. You can outfit them with flagship chips from AMD or Intel, great motherboards, excellent memory and storage, and a sturdy, slick design. For the same specks over at Apple you'd pay twice as much. Although the Apple OS is a lot more user friendly than Windows imo. But once you're in your DAW it really stops to matter. Windows does take a bit more to tune up and keep up, but it really doesn't matter once you get everything going. And don't buy into the lie that apples can't be hacked. I once fried my MacBook's hard drive with some virus. Made it unusable.

Awesome stuff Glen!! You're right about this Cheers mate!!!

Excellent video GLEEEEEEENNN! Now, it would be great to have your objectivity and perspective focused on some experienced comments on LINUX for audio (and anything else if You want) to keep on the track of opening eyes, beating expenses and achieving great results as the ultimate goal. Time is the most expensive resource... then may be money itself. Too many people are afraid of Linux OSs without even trying some distributions before expressing their opinions. Thanks and keep it going!!! Saludos desde México!

I don’t know. I’ve had a Mac for about 5 years now with zero issues or problems. It just does what I want without getting in my way.

Me watching this on a PC running Linux: Interesting :D

Hey, man. I’m one of your o.g. followers; I love this f’in channel!🤘🤘Anyway, I am 42, started my first band in 1994, started messing with recording in moms basement soon after. R.I.P Radio Shack(Shak? Dunno)….you young guys are never going to have the mid practice run to RadioShack to buy a bunch of audio and headphone adapters and splitters. We even had a tiny mixer (three channel!) from the ‘shack that we used fir the drums. Mic in the ait, one in the snare, one on the ground….balance them, stuff the outputs into a rack compressor, then stuff THAT into a Sony 4track channel. 4track simul recording!!!😙. In analog. 😕 …cassette. 💀🏴‍☠️ Anyway, I was a PC guy because I was a DOS game whore, mom was Apple all day, because she was an artist and art teacher. I got used to her iMac in college when I would leave my compaq presario pentium 2 tower on campus during breaks. This was right when the iPod appeared. When I realized how cool iTunes was(in its infancy remember), I decided to buy a PowerBook from Amazon. I had fallen in love with how well mom’s little iMac ran; it didn’t crash and it was super easy to use. So I switched to the dark side; 17 inch titanium PowerBook factory loaded / optimized for music. When I hit the damn thing, I had no idea that garage band pro was already on there….I didn’t need pro tools or logic. I found a great little free drum machine/sampler called doggiebox, bought a MIDI Yamaha keyboard and a sampler called “audio hijacker” that let you record any audio that was coming through your speakers in real time. That was super useful for sampling the creepy medicine man guy in predator 2 for an evil voodoo reggae instrumental called “dread, mon” that I made. I know, I know, stol hitting me me, ow ! I’m sorry geez, I was just a child! A 24 year old one, the worst kind! I put all my records on itunes and put TYAT on my new green screen iPod….then, I sold them all to the exchange 😩😫😤😖😣😩. That was when the ac adapter on the PowerBook decided it wouldn’t give enough juice ti the transistor to start the machine if it shut off, and sometimes woukd even allow enough through to power the battery or even just direct power to the motherboard to keep us afloat. I had to god dam dip the ac connector in saltwater, stuff alum foil around it, then jam the bastard into the plug at the precise second I pushed the power button. That would cause a power surge large enough to jump the transistor, kick start the fan, and boom! There you go. I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU TRY HOTWIRING YOUR OWN MACHINE, no matter how old you are. It was extremely dangerous not just for the state of my hard drive but it could probably have f&$@ing killed me as well. One day (you know we’re this is going), it would no longer jumpstart, Hotwire start, start at all. At the exact same time, the good old greenie screenie iPod died as well, of a broken heart. So I lost all of my albums, all 3,100 that I had collected since 89, except for the two dozen or so physical copies and 12 inchers I had kept. The Mac “geniuses”🙄were no f$&@ing help. They didn’t understand my Hotwire technique. They refused to tell me how to open an iPod to replace the f’in battery. They wanted to sell me a much smaller and shittier black plastic 12 inch laptop for 2 grand-they couldn’t or wouldn’t fix my PowerBook or iPod. So , what happened you ask? I paid 600 bucks to have the contents of my PowerBook and iPod floated up to the spirit in the sky, the Mac cloud of legend. The logic was ilthere it would wait fir me, like your dead dogs in heaven, wait for when I bought that new Mac and then I could- Yeah, I guess that shit is still up there. My music collection, two of my own novel manuscripts, hundreds of photos and video projects, at least two hundred recording studio projects. I never could afford a new apple device; that crap hit the cloud in like 2009. I’m not as dumb as people think, so 💀☠️⚰️⚱️🪦, RIP Pete’s entire MAC Creative portfolio. Maybe when I die, I’ll see my pack of beloved deceased dogs waiting on the rsinbiw bridge, and Anastasia, the coyote dog that was my soulmate and best life friend, will have my PowerBook tied to her like a side. 🍎🍏💻Fail Different☠️💀⚰️

GLEEEEEEN! Interesting video, but now I need to ask: I recently upgraded my laptop to 32 gigs of RAM, and Reaper is not utilizing them accordingly. Adobe Audition (which I hate) takes about 3 min to render a 25 track podcast, while Reaper is taking over 10 min! I noticed Reaper is only using less than 2 gigs of RAM while rendering, while Audition is using waaaaaaay more. How do you handle rendering times on your rig? Cheers!

I work with Macs at my job.I recently got one of the new M1 MacBooks and am impressed. The laptops before always had the fan running when I had to push them a bit. The new one does not. I didn't hear the fan at all and I honestly am not sure if it has one. The battery lasts for ages. I didn't push the laptop, but I had an eight hour day and I got all my work done including video calls etc. Audio is an afterthought for this one, but I am impressed with the M1 and am thinking about getting a Mac Mini for home. Just for my hobby recordings and non-job related stuff. Yeah, I know it's expensive, but I get one package that performs well, I know the OS (better than Windows anyway) and it will work with my iPhone. These are good enough reasons for me to consider a purchase.

this guy just doesn't miss huh glad to see i'm not the only one advocating for recording on pc hahah

Hey Glenn, glad to hear I'm not the only one who says "For the love of Crom!"

Fully agree with all points, even though I'm still using my old Mac (Mac Pro 2009 - when a Mac only cost around 1.5 times as much as a comparable PC and was user serviceable), but Apples software support for that machine is slowly dwindling and I'm now considering switching for all the reasons you mentioned. So, have you considered doing a video of what to look out for, when building a recording PC? My old gaming PC sure would be powerful enough, but that won't run Windows 11 and I don't want to be in the same situation with no OS updates in a few years, so I'm thinking of building a new dedicated audio PC.

I have tried Logic Pro and its alternatives, along with Final Cut Pro and its alternatives. For me, I’m at the point where I’m locked into those pro apps. I’m super excited to get the M1 Pro MacBook Pro 16”. Historically, Apple has had the lowest latency of an audio chain thanks to how the OS handles the audio. That was actually a key decision back in 2013 for me.

As a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, my loyalty to Windows and PCs is pretty strong. I thought I'd start with that because I don't want to be accused of being a Mac devotee. I was pretty disappointed with this video because almost every complaint came down to cost. How much someone pays for their equipment does not necessarily affect their recording experience. If an engineer were to enter a studio with a top of the line Mac next to a top of the line PC and cost was not an issue, would one system provide a better experience than the other? Even if the improvement were small, and the cost is ridiculously higher, someone out there is willing to pay the extra money for that little bit of an edge. I'd like to know what that edge is, or there is an edge going with PC versus Mac.

Brilliant video.

Love you man, this was beautiful.

I've tried using Windows for my home studio and it drove me absolutely insane, nothing worked, I had to re-install everything like 5 times just to get it to work, and then finally got something recorded, the next morning nothing worked once again, so I had to go back to re-installing and honestly after a week of spending 90% of my time troubleshooting I switched back to MacOS. Yes, in the past MacOS was far more expensive, but it's rock solid. Also, now I do all of my production on a $1,200 MacBook Air with M1 and it runs like an absolute dream, the performance is insane, the battery lasts forever, and I've never had any issues with it at all.

I built and repaired PCs for decades and always had a high-end laptop or desktop (usually both). But at some point I got sick of constant updates, driver issues, incompatibility issues, and invasive Windows bullshit. Now that I'm old and lame I just want something that works, period. I turn on my MacBook Pro and it's ready to go, and there's no driver conflicts and I don't feel like I always have to tune it up to keep it running at it's best. Another thing I love about my MacBook is the build quality. It's amazing. If you want that type of construction with a PC you'll have to get a Razer Blade or something along those lines and at that point you're shelling out big money anyway. Hipsters suck, I can't stand the whole "lifestyle" aspect of Apple and I avoid that nonsense. My laptop is a tool not a status symbol. And to be honest, it's easier to sail the seas on a Mac if you know what I mean. Download a .dmg and boom. Don't have to set up dozens of rules in your firewall to block outgoing connections, don't have to mount an ISO image in another program, etc. Finally, I love Logic Pro. Simple as that. There's nothing wrong at all with PC, I was a rabid IBM fanboy most of my life. Building them is a blast and the power-to-price ratio compared to Apple is significant. It's all about personal choice, just use what you enjoy and to hell with all the hype and nonsense.

That was informative and hilarious. Definitely not sixteen minutes that I can't have back. :-)

I am a PC user myself (Win10+10700k), but I have learned by experience with recent M1 chips, that you cant compare Apple and PC on specs anymore.

first hahaha (yes this is the least insightful comment imaginable but yes, pc is better bang for your buck and much more open-source stuff on windows and Linux)

I believe Glenn’s info is outdated. Neil De’Grasse Tyson stated perfectly… *The problem of most people is they think they know enough about a subject, but not knowing enough to know when they’re wrong…* Right now with the new Pro line, a simple $2k Laptop is faster than any manufactured PC but also with a built in Graphics that lets Video producers encode faster than anything available, comparable to a dedicated GPU. If it is for Audio Recording, Macs can handle more tracks and more plugins thanks to their SSD integration which uses it as additional RAM without hurting performance.

100% agree with you, Glen. Living in a 50mac/50pc household with my wife being a digital designer, it is hard ... but she is on the way to acknowledge the Macs are a pain in the butt when it comes to stability and productivity.

I'm a software engineer, I worked with Linux, Mac and Windows. Windows 7 crashed a lot, then I started using macs in 2013 to 2017, macs crashe too but it was less often and I need more GPU performance, then I decided to build my own PC, it's a machine that a MacBook pro will never beat, of curse you need to update the hardware, like faster memory, CPU, etc.

Holy shit Glenn, thank you so much for making this. It's really refreshing to hear the myths and sacred lore of the MacOS being called out as the overpriced hipster nonsense that it actually is. Customization + standardization > fruity brand name.

I'm kind of confused ... out of all 11 items only 1 of them is directly related to the act of recording (Yes, there are way more plugins on PC because it has a much larger user base). The rest of the items are just kind of, eh, whatever? Having recorded on both, just use whatever you want, they both get the job done. Also .. what does Mac being featured in Starbucks have to do with its ability to record songs? Hipsters are allowed to listen to their shitty music too, Glen.

I´ve been a Mac user for sound prod for 15+ years and man, this video touches all the delicate spots! I´m 100% sure I´ll go for Windows the next time I need to upgrade my machine.

Great video and point about voiding the warranty. Many people don’t really know what they’re getting into when it comes to Mac. PC is where it’s at when it comes to recording, the possibilities are endless.