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Originally Posted by Cocobolo Kid
A solid state drive (SSD) as your boot drive is the best single upgrade you can make to the performance of your computer (assuming you have at least 8gb of RAM). The computer will boot so much faster and every program you use will load faster. After using computers with SSD boot drives, I would never buy one without one.
I personally would choose a new PC over a Mac. Apple makes a good computer but you pay a big premium. I have an RME Fireface 802 and RME's firewire drivers work flawlessly with Windows.
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I agree with an SSD there is no question that it certainly improves boot time by a considerable factor of maybe 4 to 8 times faster , but how much of an improvement an SSD makes while recording/mixing/ or playing audio, is much less noticeable.
Personally I have a PCIe based SSD boot/system drive, I installed on my older Mac Pro tower and the difference in load time is remarkable
As far as Mac being more expensive (per se) As I understand it that depends entirely on what PC and what specs and features you are talking about... and the differences begin equalizes fairly quickly and can become null, when you compare actual apples to apples
pun intended .
But on a performance spec = spec and feature = feature and quality for quality of components used the gap gets significantly less and in some cases disappears with the better brand name PC's
In other words while you certainly can get a stripped down PC that will cost a good bit less and there are certainly far far more options available to PC's , once you start adding up all the specs and features and particularly if you are looking at turn key solutions, the cost savings starts to become more negligible.