The Mac Pro trashbox design is hilarious to me on multiple levels :)
 
Yeah I think what Apple did well is
1. styling
2. not trying to fight in the budget market in the way that PC manufacturers do
3. forcing people to keep upgrading and wanting the newest OS
 
This does end up as a better experience for those who don't like to fuss about with their PCs too much and don't mind spending extra. But buying a Mac because it should somehow run Windows better than a regular PC is pure idiocy to me.

Sanderxpander
But buying a Mac because it should somehow run Windows better than a regular PC is pure idiocy to me.

Agreed...
 
Have you priced the cost of external Thunderbolt drives?  Wow!
1TB external conventional HD is $200.  Two bay TB1 enclosure (no drives included) is $300.
With the "Cylinder" Mac Pros, you've got a single internal drive.
My main DAW is loaded with SSDs (eight plus a conventional HD).
It would cost me $2-$3k to duplicate that setup via Thunderbolt.

I've been primarily a PC/Windows user at home. But in the past ten years I've witnessed more issues with similar-priced laptops -- we're talking top of line laptops from top companies in this area -- than I've ever had with my MBP. I'm not an Apple fan per se. Just telling my experiences.

In my response to the OP I gave some helpful advice. I think that's what this forum is all about :-)

Jim Roseberry

Sanderxpander
But buying a Mac because it should somehow run Windows better than a regular PC is pure idiocy to me.

Agreed...
 
Have you priced the cost of external Thunderbolt drives?  Wow!
1TB external conventional HD is $200.  Two bay TB1 enclosure (no drives included) is $300.
With the "Cylinder" Mac Pros, you've got a single internal drive.
My main DAW is loaded with SSDs (eight plus a conventional HD).
It would cost me $2-$3k to duplicate that setup via Thunderbolt.

In terms of cost for performance nothing beats getting a regular PC laptop. But in my experience the Mac (which I have for work not my studio) I have has simply been more reliable over the course of several years. And when I've run Windows/Sonar on my Mac it's been a good experience -- which surprised me.

But the OP says they have a Mac and it's more helpful to tell them how they can be productive with Sonar on it

Agreed. And yes, definitely Bootcamp over Parallels.
Although honestly, I would give Logic a serious effort too. 

shawn@trustmedia.tv
I want to run SONAR on my Commodore 64 because, reasons. - Shawn Lee Farrell
 

Great pic, love it.

Interesting.  I want to stay on Windows7 and just found out that Microsoft loaded 3GB of Windows10 onto my SDD without my consent and make it tricky to delete.  That got me considering switching to Mac (since Sonar on Linux is unlikely).  Looking at the Cakewalk site now it appears Sonar is supported on Mac now... so what's all this talk of Bootcamp?
(see the "Try It" link where there's a Mac option: http://www.cakewalk.com/Command-Center )

There is no SONAR for Mac. Rapture Pro and Z3ta+2 for Mac use the Command Center.

jhughs
... Looking at the Cakewalk site now it appears Sonar is supported on Mac now... so what's all this talk of Bootcamp?
(see the "Try It" link where there's a Mac option: http://www.cakewalk.com/Command-Center )

I suspect that's just for the instruments and FX they sell that are supported on Mac. You can use CCC to manage those on a Mac. Sonar itself remains, for the moment at least, a Windows-only program. 
 
EDIT - as usual, scook was faster (and more succinct) 

I bought my first Mac because of Final Cut Pro... the plan was to dual boot Windows so I could run SONAR - I never got around to it then I found Logic to be surprisingly performant at low latencies, so I got lured in to the whole ecosystem 😳 I'm now seeing how iPad-based music production is starting to make great strides...wish Cakewalk was part of it.