I was pretty surprised, when I found out that Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL, Composer of the film music for the new Mad Max movie) was using a Windows PC in his studio. Maybe more and more are moving from Apple hardware back to Windows hardware. Altough you still see most of the people using MacBooks for their live acts.
I've been really torn about upgrading my music computer.
On the one hand I hugely prefer macOS over Windows. But macOS now has regular showstopper bugs that simply shouldn't be there - like the issue with AU validation, and a bug in Yosemite that made it impossible to connect more than a small number of USB devices.
Also, the Mac Pro is so poorly specified it's competing with it's own predecessors. It makes more sense to buy an ancient "cheesegrater" 5,1 Pro and upgrade it with a new processor than to buy the new Darth Waste Bin model - not just because of the basic spec and performance, but because the new Pro has no PCIe slots, some popular high-end music hardware comes on PCIe cards, and adding an external PCIe/Thunderbolt card cage doubles the cost.
Windows actually has a broader range of VSTs available than macOS.
So I'm not surprised pro users are switching to Windows. I don't love the idea, but if Apple can't offer the performance the market needs, users have no choice but to switch.
