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Originally Posted by WorldofNoise
Hello,
I have a Late 2016 MacBook Pro i7 2.6 Quad, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD, that I'm thinking of using bootcamp on, as I continuously read Reaper works better under Windows.
Can anyone tell me if they've used Reaper in bootcamp and gained any performance or stability? Does this improve the graphic performance with a retina display? Thunderbolt still work as expected? I'd be using Windows 10 Pro.
Thanks!
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Late 2015 MBP here, 2.4Ghz, 16Gb ram, 256Gb SSD, boot camp with win10. Yes, the graphic response is genuinely faster. A user made a very good comparison video of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmdIOlI81Fg
A few times it's annoying. If you have a mouse with built-in double click, that might not work as well as on Windows. Dragging elements, composing midi notes in the editor sometimes requires two motion instead of one, as the grabbed item does not entirely follow the mouse. That's the worst I encountered so far, but honestly it's not that annoying.
It's probably useful to mention that I'm using Reaper only for audio, no video.
That said, OSX's way of handling the USB ports is way better than Windows'. I find having problems connecting the same amount of USB periphery on windows. I reboot it on OSX and it works just fine. (Have no Thunderbolt hardware.)
Oh, and for me bootcamp heats up the MBP chassis horribly, it's almost constantly on full cooling cycle, which is not only annoying cause it's loud, but also not very economic on your laptop. I still recommend OSX to be honest.