Jim Roseberry

Keni
So if you do this, it gives you more horsepower than you can easily find in windiws based hardware...

FWIW, You can easily get that level of performance with a custom Windows PC. 
Noel's new DAW is running an i7-5960x (16 processing threads).  
 

Curious Jim what the cost was? That processor alone is $1000 on BH site.

It was literally about half the cost of a Mac Pro.

Ya, and it probably doesn't have dual profire GPUs and PCI-Express SSD. Both those components are very expensive. It's not apples and apples. :) being funnies!

My point being, when you start actually trying to piece together something similar to higher end Macs there is not the huge price discrepancy people like to claim. Yes they are more expensive, but then there's cases etc.

daveny5

tlw
PC cons.
The endless hunt for the right drivers.

Really? Maybe 10 years ago. Not now.
 

Still happens :-( Once you start trying to work out exactly which revision a motherboard is things can get interesting.
 
Also Mac updates are simply pushed at you via Apple. No need to keep checking if the basic system, network, screen and  graphics drivers have been updated.
 
I reckon about half the PC sorting out I do for friends and family is driver related. Some people seem incapable of following simple instructions without trying to do something clever they've made up for themselves because it "seemed like a good idea". :-/

WDI
Ya, and it probably doesn't have dual profire GPUs and PCI-Express SSD. Both those components are very expensive. It's not apples and apples. :) being funnies!

256GB PCIe SSD is ~$260.
And the dual Profire GPUs (and Xeon CPU) buy you nothing in regards to DAW performance.  
If you're doing video editing, you can pop in any high-end video card/s from Nvidia or AMD.