Uli Plank wrote:That said, you pay a premium for this comfort and currently, Apple has no machine that can approach the speed of an optimized PC or Windows laptop.
This is true, but I think "speed" should be considered in context of how much work you can accomplish over the course of a year. There are loads of threads here from Windows users (and multiple pages in the Configuration Guide) devoted to system specs. With the Mac, your research and decision-making take about 5 minutes; in contrast with Windows it can take hours (just see all the threads here in the forum asking which GPU, what motherboard, etc. to use for a Windows machine, and compare the number of pages in the Configuration Guide devoted to Windows specs versus those for Mac). And if Resolve really does work more smoothly on the Mac with fewer crashes and bugs (I don't know if that's true, but some posts here on the forum imply that it is), that should be factored into the "speed" equation as well.
To me, the biggest drawback of the Mac apart from initial cost, is long-term cost: the inability to upgrade components or even repair things yourself makes it a much more expensive proposition over the long term.
I actually spend more time each day on Windows than I do on the Mac, but for Resolve the choice was pretty clear for me: the extra financial investment in a Mac pays off in terms of just being able to get my work done with minimal fuss and frustration. I don't work on video for a living, but even if I did my "total cost of ownership" equation would be based more on total potential productivity than speed per se.
Resolve 18 Studio, Mac Pro 3.0 GHz 8-core, 32 gigs RAM, dual AMD D700 GPU.
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