Carl Ferguson
I develop high-end video applications for over 30 years now. I NEVER recommend a mac for any multimedia job. There are too many things that can go wrong over time and you will be left on the dust. Macs are not built for multimedia job and OBS is a tool that requires computer power, gpu power, cpu power, resources that most macs don't have. Yes, you can do simple stuff but you are lock on that system until a software develops. I solution for many mac users is to install Booth camp like software to run windows 10 on them and you will have almost the full capabilities of a PC, but limited because on other high end staff because of the virtual OS run time. if you are going to do any streams and you already have a mac, You can use a cheap laptop or desktop to connect the mac to the PC via NDI connections in OBS. In the case you don't know yet what system OS to buy, stay away from Apple and by a real computer to do the work. Macs computers are great if you use dedicated software passed by Apple and approved by Apple. OBS is an open source application that keep involving fast and if you are in a MAC environment you always will be behind in so many things and on updates as well. Writing code to a MAC is a nightmare and takes time to debug and update things to it. Also, there is a danger of Apple not allowing the updates you need at any time. Here is what I recommend for multimedia.
Computer: Always a PC, never a mac. PERIOD! get a cheap computer/PC and you will be fine. Most of the things you see on my channel is done a old laptop that cost me $300. And a Mac that cost $45,000 can not do. So, I rest my case on a computer thing.
Now, if you are going to use any tablet or phone for multimedia, I always recommend an iOS devices vs. Android. We never use Android devices for apps that this real time video, audio on big projects. Real time data is important and Android is a horrible OS for any real time applications, but I think Google is working on a new OS to compete with the iOS, you know, iOS has is a lower level language to deal with hardware while Android has many layers and that is a huge no on real time applications.
Now, we now know what computer and tablet/phone is best for multimedia. PC/Windows always for multimedia and iOS for stable and real time applications that could communicate with a PC. So, I highly recommend what I show on my channel to get the best setup. Or you will always have problem on any computer or software.
Does it make any sense? You want the freedom to be creative and don't relay in computers/hardware's that makes a creative day an IT day. And most of the people just want the darn thing to work and move on.
