How is your Mac Studio working out?

An M2 chip is probably coming out soon if you can hold on..

According to the rumors no Studio refresh this year but the mini might get one. Have to wait until March event to see though. Long awaited update to Mac Pro should be happening unless they wait until June to announce that. It’s always a guessing game and once they do announce you might be waiting another couple months for availability. I picked up a M1 MBP over the summer. It’s been handling my Logic and PT session without issue.

www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-event/

I'm in the market for a new computer to run Cubase 12 Pro, Wavelab 11 and Dorico 4 and all my other software, VI's and plugins which is a very long list!

I looked at the Apple Studio but they're very expensive in my part of the world (considerably cheaper in the USA it appears)

Also, you don't seem to get a lot for your money.

For the same price of the Studio (configured to 64GB RAM and an internal 1TB SSD) I can buy a Pro built for audio
PC Workstation (my last one from the same company has been perfect so for 8 years)

Configured

i9 13th Gen 16 Core
64GB DDR5 RAM
2TB M.2 OS drive
2TB M.2 Sample Drive
2TB M.2 Audio drive

And it's a tower unit so I can transfer all my SATA SSD's into it too.
Plus my RME PCIe host card.

I'm wondering if the Apple Studio is worth getting less M.2 SSD's (5TB less!)
just to move to OSX and have a Studio.

I'm struggling to see the benefit - I mean Windows 10 has been faultless for the last 8 years
and the whole "tweaking" Windows thing is completely a thing of the past.

I also have an iMac in my office/teaching room and I don't find OSX any better or worse than Windows 10/11 they're both just
modern efficient OS's.

So guys .... what's the pull to getting an Apple Studio?

The small foot print?
If you want to run Logic X?

DAW choice and OS choice are basically religious/political preferences. No good can come from online discussions. 😂

It's a very powerful machine, rarely see the cpu meter move much even with VI's.