Good

Good, but getting older, speakers broke and processing speed starting to slow down

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I have a MacBook Pro M1 Pro

From having an ASUS Zenbook, I upgraded to a MacBook Pro. It has better stability, ease of operation, more power and efficiency!

Rock Solid perfomance

Apple's M1 Pro, even at almost 4 years old when writing this, still handles all my production needs with ease!

It's a very stable platform for sequencing and sound editing.

I take my MacBook wherever I go. I can easily just poke song ideas into the computer using virtual keys in my DAWs. I use it for live setups because it is small and can be carried around. I use a USB3 Thunderbolt to USB2 dongle which expands to 4 ports. Works fine for everything I've tried it on. I run Logic Pro X and Reason Studios 11 on it with no problems.

Versatile

This laptop has been wonderful when it comes to computing power and processing VSTs within DAWs. The only reason why this gets 4 and not 5 stars is because of the capacity of the internal SSD. I have the 512GB version and I have ran out of space fast due to the amount of VSTs. Some VSTs are only a few hundred megabytes but some are as large as 60 gigs. If you have large VSTs, you may run out of space quickly.

Definitely Must Have!!!

I'm using the 2018 MacBook Pro (15 inch, i9 Model). Not just for editing my set, also this macbook control my school theater display & lightning. it's really big... about 210 inch... I just I can't believe just laptop to control the display & a lot of lightning... a lot of my friends using MacBook Pro too.. but only my MacBook Pro can handle this... If my friend's MacBook control this thing, it just crash and always restart... Apple, i really appreciate it... If you are video, music, lightning editors... this MacBook is right for you...

Model: 15" i7 (Late 2011) - It Worked great, till it started overheating and got GPU issues

I produced a lot of music on this computer. The 2011 model was easy to upgrade with RAM and it came with a no-glossy screen. Unfortunately, this computer developed GPU issues and it had to be repaired three times. It is working now, but I switched to PC, as the Mac is unreliable. Ableton works a little bit better on this Mac, than on my PC, though.

Industry standard, for good reason

These laptops are reliable, capable, and widely-used. You can use MacBook Pros even from several years ago to create music at a high level. I bought one new in 2015, and since losing that one, got one recently from the same year refurbished. It serves my purposes well and are approachable and powerful at any skill level.

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Thin, light, powerful, and retina display is beautiful

On paper, it didn't seem like a huge upgrade from my old mbp. It's amazing though - they got rid of the optical drive and made it much lighter and thinner (almost like an Air), the battery life lasts significantly longer, and dat retina display is stunning!! Not cheap by any means, but WELL worth it.

Specs of mine are 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1600 GHz DDR 3 memory, 500GB SSD.

Suitable for Media Peeps

Don't mean to sound like a Mac fan boy because I do have a PC as well for other things that I do, but I would say in my experience Macs are definitely better for media peeps. I started out with a PC and during one night of DJing, it completely crapped out on me during the peak hours of the night and I had to sit through a few minutes of silences before switching to CDs (Thank god I brought some for backup). A few days after the event, I went out and bought a Mac as most people were recommending it for music production/DJ/etc. I never went back to PC for live sets.