> there is no alternative to a Mac nowadays
I need to point this out all the time these days it seems, but this opinion is only valid if all you use is a laptop and all you care about is single core perfomance.
The computing world is far bigger than just laptops.
Big music/3d design/video editing production suites etc still benefit much more from having workstation PCs with higher PCI bandwidth, more lanes for multiple SSDs and GPUs, and high level multicore processing performance which cannot be matched by Apple silicon.
Doesn’t Apple have significant market share for pro music and video editing?
For studio movies, render farms are usually Linux but I think many workstation tasks are done on Apple machines. Or is that no longer true?
Music production is overwhelmingly Apple. It comes from the fact that Protools was Mac only until the late 2000s and Logic Pro, Apple's DAW and alternative to Protools was also very popular and also Mac only. That left Cubase for windows and a few others like Ableton and less popular DAWs like Reaper, fruity loops etc. Today there are a few more options for Windows like Studio One who is very good though
Add to that the fact that most of the audio interfaces were firewire and plug and play on mac and a real struggle on windows. With windows you also had to deal with ASIO, and once you picked your audio interface it has to be used for both inputs and outputs (still to this day) forcing you to compound interfaces with workarounds like Asio4All if you wanted to use different interfaces, while Mac os just lets you pick different interfaces for input and output
Linux had very interesting projects, unfortunately music production relies on a lot of expensive audio plugins that a lot of time come in installers and are a pain in the butt to use through proton/wine, when it's possible at all. That means that doing music production on Linux means possibly not using plugins you paid and not finding alternatives to them. It's a shame because I'd love to be able to only use Linux
> most of the audio interfaces were firewire
With Apple removing Firewire support this Fall, and so many devices still plugging along in so many studios, I wonder what's going to happen this fall.
> That left Cubase for windows
When I was at music college doing production courses, they exclusively taught Cubase on windows.
Yes, for a while that was the only "serious" option for Windows
Yes, and Logic Pro was generally looked at as 'My first DAW' in most studios I have been in.
Also Protools was available on Windows from 1997 and was used in many PC based studios.
I remember Logic Pro becoming quite popular after version 8, even though veterans who knew protools backwards had no reason to switch, a lot of the newer studios used logic.
You're right about protools on Windows. I got confused about protools not requiring the use of their own interfaces
Prosumer, but not pro. Pixar for example are not modelling and animating on Apple Silicon.
On the video side Vegas Pro is used in a lot of production houses, and it does not run on Apple Silicon at all.