Naahhh. Where's the fun in this? I'd suggest to skip this unnecessary complication and go "all in" mainstream: buy a Bose loudspeaker from Amazon and play your Spotify music via Bluetooth.😎
Measuring with Macs is very well possible. REW and other apps like Fuzzmeasure blend in very well with the native audio macOS core. But be beware that virtually no simulation app runs on macOS except Speaker Sim, that's all Windows territory. So follow the beaten track and get a simple old W10/11 machine. It doesn't have to be fast or full with graphics performance, unless you end up designing enclosures with FEM/BEM-analysis apps.
If you absolutely must run a different operating system, just use a virtual machine. No need to buy hardware.
And not to mention, DSP software options on Windows are many. All of them that I can think of are on Windows. Mac DSP software is really very limited.
The expenses on a legit Windows license and on Parallels or other convenient VM solutions (macOS) outrun those on a cheap secondhand W11 laptop. Been there done that. So there certainly is a need to buy hardware…
...and add to the ever growing circle of consuming rare, hazardous and toxic materials, and creating more waste. VMWare Fusion is free and works great on my Mac.
I apparently missed that a year ago, great, thx! The W11 license still has to come though and buying secondhand is probably ecologically not that bad.
on Ubuntu, many DSP software.
I'm currently installing a number of very interesting plugins, including a parametric crossover and filter simulation.
You should see a measuring laptop with Win 10 like your digital multimeter: You don't ask who made the software running it, just use it as a tool.
I keep a Win7 laptop for some old software, was 60€ from an refurbishing company on ebay, even with a 12 month warantee. I added a 125 gB SSD and it is fast enough for anything that measures something.
I only buy used laptops, and upgrade them with an SSD and Win 10 license (some got a faster prozessor, used from ebay, too). That doesn't add that much to global waste and saves me really big money.
I found Dell Latitude to be the most robust laptops, they work even after 15 years. Consumables like batteries and keyboards are cheap and easy to get.
Instead of having complicated multi boot installations, I simply have a whole machine for a task. So the car diagnose laptop stays in the shop, the audio stuff in the lab and my all day surfing and writing slave at home.
If you call yourself a "Gamer" you have completely other needs. I have so many hobbies that gaming is the most boring thing I could think of to waste my time.
Now that Win 11 is killing all the old hardware (how high will the waste montain be? 5 times Mont Everest or even more?) , I may convert to Linux, because I'm not going to buy a new computer just because Bill Gates decided so.
I had some very frustrating encounters with Linux it years ago, so I was extremely surprised how easy a current Linux distribution is installed. Start it, leave it allone for maybe 10 minutes and you have a working system. I'm not going to ruin my nerves by emulating something to run my measuring stuff, that will stay Win...
I keep a Win7 laptop for some old software, was 60€ from an refurbishing company on ebay, even with a 12 month warantee. I added a 125 gB SSD and it is fast enough for anything that measures something.
I only buy used laptops, and upgrade them with an SSD and Win 10 license (some got a faster prozessor, used from ebay, too). That doesn't add that much to global waste and saves me really big money.
I found Dell Latitude to be the most robust laptops, they work even after 15 years. Consumables like batteries and keyboards are cheap and easy to get.
Instead of having complicated multi boot installations, I simply have a whole machine for a task. So the car diagnose laptop stays in the shop, the audio stuff in the lab and my all day surfing and writing slave at home.
If you call yourself a "Gamer" you have completely other needs. I have so many hobbies that gaming is the most boring thing I could think of to waste my time.
Now that Win 11 is killing all the old hardware (how high will the waste montain be? 5 times Mont Everest or even more?) , I may convert to Linux, because I'm not going to buy a new computer just because Bill Gates decided so.
I had some very frustrating encounters with Linux it years ago, so I was extremely surprised how easy a current Linux distribution is installed. Start it, leave it allone for maybe 10 minutes and you have a working system. I'm not going to ruin my nerves by emulating something to run my measuring stuff, that will stay Win...
hey @Turbowatch2 i'm a developer and i handle a lot of stuff on pc. for example if i want to use 3DsMax and similar stuff i have to use a W-in and i usually use an 8-64bit. the issue of using Linux is always connected to the fact that not everyone knows how to use a terminal/shell and last but not least, avoid putting it (w-in) on the network. then, if you use Wine on Ubuntu it's like a Mac/w-in hybrid 🙂