mac and sonar

i would like and need to buy a new computer
why not an apple?
could you tell me if icould
my sonar plat works well on my computer but with its 9 years old
what could you suggest me?
thanck you
Pascal
 

, i thought cakewalk wanted some mac users
i read it few months ago
is it still on?

thank you for your replies
if there are some more feelings
just for advertisement

 
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To run Sonar on a Mac the best option is to download Apple's bootcamp Windows drivers and install Windows in a partition on the Mac's drive. You can then boot into either MacOS or Windows. Parallels runs Windows inside a virtual machine that itself runs under MacOS so on the plus side there's no need to reboot to get into Windows and there is a level of integration between Windows applications and Macs. On the minus side a virtual machine is nothing like as fast as running a Windows application in Windows and latency and cpu usage are issues. It's not a route I'd go down to run a DAW though it works fine for many applications that aren't time/resource critical in the way a DAW is.

All that applies until/if there is a Mac version of Sonar.

On the other hand, having used almost every version of Windows since Windows 3 back in the early 1990s, MacOS is my preferred operating system, and while Macs aren't as powerful as many Windows machines broadly speaking they don't seem to need to be to get similar performance most of the time. Photoshop on my MacBook Pro's 2.2GHz i7 takes about the same time to do things as it did on the much faster i7 in the PC in my sig., and the Mac uses Intel HD4000 graphics, not a separate gpu. I do find I sometimes have to "freeze" tracks in Logic though, which I didn't in Sonar on PC.

Core Audio and Core MIDI "just work" in a way Windows all too often doesn't unless it's tweaked for the purpose, wi-fi disabled etc. And the almost continuous chain of issues Windows 10 updates seem to be causing is largely absent on Macs.

But Macs do cost quite a bit more than PCs of course, there's less software available and there's no way to upgrade them by e.g. adding a new cpu or gpu.