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Blind Mac users, I need your opinion. Is it worth getting a MacBook Air as primary laptop in addition to a Windows desktop, for consuming media, music production and, well, general laptop? I'm kind of fed up with Windows laptops to be honest, the Mac seems awesome regarding quality, but I'm completely lost when it comes to VoiceOver, and I hear very, very different opinions on Mac accessibility these days. I'd kind of love to try it, the other hand, the price speaks for itself, and I'm not an Apple fanboy anymore, nor locked in the ecosystem, and would sort of like to keep beeing flexible.
Another point of interest would be, how is Windows emulation these days, do VMs work reliably and lag-free? Thanks so much for any information or opinions you can give, boosts are really appreciated.
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garo

I know that Windows emulation works quite well with Parelels (forgive the spelling). Also obviously just making assumtions here, but imho the price and the ecosystem make this seem like a bad choize for me too. Like you'd get 24 gb of RAM and 512 gb of SSD for about $1.600. These are many resources yeah, but already plugins and samples take up space, plus the OS plus Ableton, and if you'd want to put a virtual machine there too? Well you definitely won't be getting the usage under 200-300 gb.
Actually, I'm gonna be honest, I'd love to try it out and might even use it, but again I'm not in the Apple ecosystem and I'm not sure how much of a kill this is. Also, I'm not paying as much as I spent for my GAMING PC just to be able to produce music on the go.
Again, I can relate and I'd love to have a Mac too because I feel like they feel really cool to use and it'd be really cool making music on the go and setting it up and that stuff, but even $1.099 are kinda much. And 256 gb are kinda less for that price, I have like 50 gb of samples, plus Ableton packs and installation.
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Zach Bennoui

So I wouldn't necessarily say VO is a disaster, however, it is in serious need of a major overhall. Unfortunately the macOS accessibility APIs are very old at this point, and while I think Apple is doing work to try and modernize them, it's taking a lot of time. For music production and audio stuff it's fine, but for daily use especially anything to do with word processing, spreadsheets, etc, I would keep using Windows.
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@menelion If you are asking blind Mac users, you know what the answer will be. Windows users will tell you otherwise. I am a Mac user BTW! :) If you possibly can, get a mac, play with it for 13 days and then return on the 14th. You get the point. There is really no right or wrong. I like Mac mostly because of audio stack -- an important one for me. Rest is less important or workable. HTH!
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Well, i have an m2 Macbook pro, and if your using the mac for browsing the web and the like, I'd say its perfect for that for sure. I've personally haven't seen much in the way of issues with VO and have found the Mac experience to be pretty great actually for that sort of thing, is it different than windows? Yes, its definitely different, but different isn't bad though. As for Windows emulation, I'm not exactly sure on that front.
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