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iOS related advantages of a MacBook over a PC laptop?
I need to run Samplitude (Yah I know: "who?" "what?") in Windows on a laptop. Naturally I thought I would get a Windows laptop but since the Macbook can run Windows well and I love the iPads I was wondering what iOS related benefits there would be to also having OSX on a laptop. I know I will definitely be using Windows and Samplitude but I don't know much about the OSX <--> iOS music/audio relationship. Also, no need to go into much depth, I can google the breadcrumb trails. 
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Not sure, since I use a PC laptop, but I know now there's inter-device audio between ipad ios 9... and Mac. But since I have an iConnectaudio4 interface it doesn't have much advantage for me unless there's something else too.
Inter device audio!
Inter device audio works fine in Windows via studiomux. So no idea if there's any advantage tbh.
One of the advantages is the audio midi setup app, very simple app that manages the routing between your mac and external devices. You can create something called an aggregate device which can be multiple soundcards, ios devices or anything that uses core audio and sends audio via usb, firewire and thunderbolt, you can even include the built in microphone.
Just now I created an aggregate device using just my ipad and the built in output so I could monitor through headphones on my mbp. I used inter device audio for input 1&2 and studiomux to create 18 more inputs and 2 outs. With this setup I can use inter device audio to stream any audio from my ipad, old apps that aren't iaa or audiobus compatible, youtube and audio from safari etc. Then use studiomux for all my apps that are iaa or audiobus compatible and record all of these into logic on different external input channels, either as 10 stereo inputs or 20 mono inputs or a combination of the two. You have to pan hard left and right to get inter device audio to do 2 channels of mono, but this works with two separate apps or one app that supports panning.
All the outputs and inputs were assigned automatically when I created this aggregate device and logic asked me if I wanted to use it straight away, even before I named it. Because this uses the core audio system it will pop up in any app that supports core audio and you choose it like you would a soundcard. I find there aren't many things that you can do on a mac that you can't do on a pc, it's just that macs come with most the stuff built in and with windows I have to download extra software like asio for all, wifi midi apps etc, I'm still on xp on my server box and 8.1 running in parallels on my mbp, so I don't know if the situation has improved with 10, but I look forward to the gesture support when I upgrade.
Since Logic is a natural purchase on a Mac for the price, the free Logic Remote app for iPad is fairly useful. I have a cheap 16 GB mini 4 to use for that purpose.
Also, if you liked Alchemy on iOS, then you could get it back as 2.0 within Logic
If you are running WIndows on the Mac, I'm not sure what advantage having the Mac will be. I don't think you can transfer stuff easily between Windows and OSX on the Mac. If not, might as well just get a PC.
External SSD or SD card?
Of course I would let OS X do the original formatting and then see how well Windows responds to it, but if that didn't work, would try the other way.
I haven't dual booted anything in 10 years though.
But since you'd want any audio app saving to an external drive for performance reasons anyway, seems like the way to go?
OSX can work with FAT and NTFS volumes so it can access the windows bootcamp volume w/o any problems.
Also, you can run you windows bootcamp system in a VM like Vmware Fusion and share any files using shared folders. Or just copy those files by dragging them to/from a running Vmware instance
Actually ntfs on OS X is read only tho
There are products that can fix this. I'm using Paragon NTFS($20) but there are free ones too
True. Completely forgot about that. It has been a while since the last time I had to manage a ntfs. Thanks for the heads up
Thanks for all the info folks. In the end I decided to snag a deal on an Asus Zenbook, last years model still running Windows8.1 Should do the trick and form factor wise it is in the macbook ballpark.
Is it possible to use studiomux with an iOS audio interface to record in Windows?
i would like to record guitar in apogee one and stream directly into Windows
True, and it works really well here...