If a cool appearance is important, there are plenty of options for you besides a Mac.
 

I just got a used Macbook pro (mid 2012 13" model, built in 2015 though), mainly because it was a really really great deal and I only had a surface 3 (non pro) beside my desktops. I figured it was a good option for portable recording as I have a UAD Apollo, and this MBP has FW 800 and Thunderbolt.
 
My experience is that Bootcamp is sh*t and is designed to make Windows run like sh*t on macs. The performance and garbage drivers are just pathetic. Even on an SSD. Its not windows, I can run windows on lesser machines and have a better experience.

I think if I was going down the Mac route I would check out Logic, I've seen it in action in a lot of tutorials and despite the slightly odd workflow in some ways it looks like a really swish, slick program.

But I can't ever see myself doing the Mac switch. You get WAY more bang for your buck with a PC.

I'm not about to switch but it's true, Logic is a killer program and almost impossible to beat bang for buck.

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My experience is that Bootcamp is sh*t and is designed to make Windows run like sh*t on macs. The performance and garbage drivers are just pathetic. Even on an SSD. Its not windows, I can run windows on lesser machines and have a better experience.

I've had the exact opposite experience!
MacBook Pro (early 2011) running Win7 x64.  It's not quite as snappy as my main DAW PC running Win10, but I've not had any issues with it in almost three years.
 
I personally would much prefer Cakewalk stay as is and keep all resources directed at developing Sonar, rather than diverting those valuable resources into rewriting it for Mac.

Maybe it was the combination of install windows 8.1 and then upgrade to win 10 that was at fault? Now that my 8.1 license is upgraded ill try a clean install of 10.

doesn't seem like a very cost-effective way for Cakewalk to move forward

I use Macs in preference to PCs, with the exception of the PC that runs Sonar.

Macs aren't perfect and they have their own issues from time to time. OS X is completely different to Windows, which is one reason I prefer Macs (I like Unix). To say OS X is "simpler" than Windows isn't correct, it's "different" to Windows. There are semblances to iOS in look and feel and OS X and iOS devices integrate pretty well generally speaking.

From a DAW point of view it has to be said Core Audio/MIDI does make things much simpler to set up, and no need to dig around in the depths of the system switching core parking and wifi off. Built-in wireless MIDI networking is nice.

Retina screens are considerably better than HD 1900x1080 monitors.

Macs don't blue-screen crash like Windows, but they can and will lock up requiring a forced reboot sometimes. Like with Windows that problem's often down to a third-party driver or hardware.

But they cost quite a lot more than an equally powerful but maybe not so well engineered PC (those alloy MacBook bodies are expensive) and in the PC laptop world if you spend Mac levels of money you will get something more powerful. And there's no way to expand a Mac other than via Thunderbolt. Which works well but anything with "Thunderbolt" on it tends to be expensive, and many external drives and enclosures that claim to be USB3/Thunderbolt are really USB3 ones internally with a Thunderbolt socket added. The catch being that while Thunderbolt supports the SSD TRIM command USB doesn't. You also have to switch TRIM for non-Apple drives on using a terminal command.

I have Logic Pro X on a 2015 15" i7 MacBook Pro. I could live with using it as the only DAW, but the plugins it comes with are generally weaker than those you get with Sonar Platinum (with the exception perhaps of Alchemy). I personally could use Sonar Platinum with no third-party plugs at all if I needed to, but not Logic.

Sonar on OS X? It's been asked for from time to time, but the systems are very different and I would imagine it would be a huge task. There's also the pricing to consider. Logic Pro X is inexpensive as full-blown DAWs go, and can handle Garageband files and projects. Every Mac comes with Garageband. And Apple make their money mostly from selling hardware, not software...