Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
I did switch from 2012 Macbook Air to 2019 Macbook Pro a few weeks ago and I can&#x27;t agree more with the article. One of the reasons I&#x27;m using Mac instead of Linux is that I make music. And the new Macbook sucks for this purpose: the same recording settings I used on my old laptop are not usable on the new one. 90% of time things work fine, but sometimes I get glitches and pops in the middle of the recording. Why? Who knows. I did everything I could like closing other apps, disabling ton of things running in background; I freeze tracks in my DAW but things still break sometimes. I really hope some update from Ableton&#x2F;Apple fixes things soon; if not I&#x27;m considering downgrade from Catalina.<p>But wait, there&#x27;s more! Sometimes I got glitches even when I&#x27;m not recording but playing tracks. I have this problem on literally the same Ableton projects that used to &quot;just work&quot; on the old machine (same number of tracks&#x2F;plugins). The workaround is to restart the laptop. Seriously, it feels like Windows XP all over. I can&#x27;t imagine playing live shows with such unreliable setup - fortunately I just make tracks for my own, but if I were to go out for some kind of jam session or open mic I&#x27;d consider switching to Windows.<p>EDIT: One more thing that sucks about new MacOS: dropping 32 bit compatibility. RIP all 32 bit VSTs. Fortunately I don&#x27;t use that many plugins and it turned out everything I really care about has 64 bit version. But if it didn&#x27;t, then I&#x27;d hold on to the old OS as long as possible.