This is a good point. Having multiple "desktops" available with a quick 3 finger trackpad flip is huge. No minimizing/maximizing. I run my mixer app for my interface on the far left desktop, and next Ableton, and you can run as many desktops as you want, so you could run Itunes on a third, a web browser, any other apps you want. Flick between them in a quarter second.Khazul wrote: Also OSX has some built in features that make running multiple audio apps with midi sync easy to setup and similar with connecting in MIDI from iPads etc over WiFi. - these are all extra plusses for me. I happen to like the multi-touch track pads etc well along with the gestures in OSX and the way full screen apps work and the ease of sliding between them (Live + Traktor synced via midi for eg). Similar is achievable on windows with a bunch of 3rd party downloads of course assuming they down all bring the machine to its knees.
The battery life is great, and pretty much anything you can think of in my opinion is better. The trackpad blows a windows trackpad out of the water. Yesterday I was recording with a drummer, and I ran my MBP on battery only, running my audio interface and a Novation Launchkey, both powered off the MBP for two hours, and I had 20% battery left.
This is from a lifelong Windows user, not a "fanboy", although I might have become one now lol. I was thinking, "Bah, these fanboys keep going on about macs, I know Windows, I am getting a Windows laptop. It will be fine." Sold a couple months later. I feel foolish for being a semi computer geek and not knowing this until recently.
