A core i9 with a blistering fast 4.something gigahertz boost for all your editing needs..<br><br>Except when it throttles and you get the power of an i3 for $5000,(reply>), John Merritt yeah thats to be expected apple left the IBM Power PC architecture and moved on to X86. Allowing apple to make imacs from off the shelf pc parts and to optimize mac OS for said pc parts. The issue I have is with a VM your not using your resources efficiently. The amount ram you need to run smothly would exponentially increase the cost the computer, thus making it a deal braker (atleast for me). You can't upgrade your ram unlike regular PC's and older macbook's either (so thats out of the question). Yes there is boot camp, but honestly it lacks polish and feels immensly unoptimized for macbook hardware (atleast anything that is proprietary), and the trac pad sucks horribly. (I've used it and that's not an opinion that's just a fact, just simple things like scrolling down web pages is seemingly unnatural. It works amazingly in mac OS but for windows it's just bad.) Also using bootcamp requires a restart which is also not a perfectly seamless experience. Hackintosh's are a complete pain in the ass to set up, and if they fail the machine is completely bricked. (In most cases imessage and a bunch of other features don't work either ) <br><br>I think the perfect set up assuming you have the cash is to buy either a maxxed out PC or an imac pro with 128gb of ram, and use multiple virtual machines (1 per OS)  (Windows 7/ 10, linux distro of choice) and each would be on its own designated monitor. For laptops I would choose mac os only, because you can't get mac os natively on other hardware, (unless your using a VM), but the rest can still be obtained via VM or even bootcamp partitions and run smoothly. But I'd go for the 2015 macbook air. Yeah the screen is meh, and the internals are old but for most of my programming needs honesty a dual core processor running at 1.6 Ghz is more than sufficient. Hell even an 800 mghz single core processor with 512 MB of ram, and a 480p display is fine for all my productivity needs. That just goes to show how far technology has advanced. I would never recommend those specs for a gamer though .... 😂😂😂😂😂,(reply>), ですLoli Hunter I would argue the exact opposite quick sync could be optimized with respect to high end hardware ONLY, (kind of like Minimum spec requirements in steam) This could narrow down the hardware enough to make it easier to optimize. I don't see any video editors using the plethora of low end pc hardware that was released a decade ago, this might actually give the developers more freedom to further take advantage of such powerful hardware. The similarities in graphic card architectures such as Nvidia's 10 series (gtx 1060, 1070, 1080, 1080ti) etc would mean that all they would have to do is change the number of applicable CUDA cores they could use for encoding (kind of like maxing out the settings in a game). It would be interesting to see where this goes in the future though. Like anything in software development I would still wait until Adobe refines this in the next couple of years.,(reply>), How exactly am I not as "free" as a Windows user (FYI Im a Windows System Admin, I use a Mac at home) and I can run any apps a Windows user can and I can also run Windows, either as a VM or I can wipe the Macbook Pro and run Windows only. If you really believe what you have written you are extremely misinformed, this was true back in the days of MacOS9 and earlier but OSX-MacOS has significantly changed the Mac. The amount of professional WinTel engineers I see with Macs is more than 50% these days,(reply>), ですLoli Hunter<br>Final cut is hardly more capable than movie maker,(reply>), Kalan Howse Buy a PC, install MacOS on it =&gt; Win and you saved money to buy a new car as well.