To be a little pedantic: He is not claiming that producers are never using PCs, he is claiming that live audio never runs on PC, because stability is the top priority there. Later he says in the studio you can tolerate a little instability if the other benefits of windows are worth it.
That no producers are using windows PCs is an obviously false claim. There are DAWs that don't even run on mac. There are also live production tools that don't, like Notch, so there must be someone running windows on stage, anyway.
That macs are more stable in day-to-day operation is not really a bold claim though.
> That macs are more stable in day-to-day operation is not really a bold claim though.
It absolutely is. Do you have any data to back up the claim? Anecdotally windows 10's stability seems vastly superior, especially with every release of MacOS seemingly regressing further and further.
I just ran ‘uptime’ on my Mac terminal. 194 days. I pretty much never reboot the thing. It’s just always stable, despite hundreds, maybe thousands, of sleep-wake cycles, usually a dozen apps open at one time, the thing is as stable now as it was when I rebooted it some six months ago.
I used to use windows, for a decade, and certainly never had any experience like that.
The only time I ever reboot Windows 10 is to apply updates, which mac os also forces you to do. Windows doesn't even go down if a driver crashes anymore.
Updates alone put my old macbook pro at lower availability than any of my windows or Linux systems since MacOS manages to have a uniquely slow update system. I don't get how major MacOS updates manages to be several times slower than fresh installs of Windows or Linux.
That no producers are using windows PCs is an obviously false claim. There are DAWs that don't even run on mac. There are also live production tools that don't, like Notch, so there must be someone running windows on stage, anyway.
That macs are more stable in day-to-day operation is not really a bold claim though.
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