I am into music production, and I always see that macs are better for this than PCs, even when the on-paper specs of the PC are better.
Often, people refer to the audio-driver and something about coreaudio. They say that the audio is on top of the OS for PC, and within the OS for Mac. I am so confused.
Please explain like I am five.
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A driver is a piece of software which makes the main OS recognise some extra hardware.
Apple Macs have a restricted range of options, but you can be sure that MacOS / OSX already has the driver built in. Windows can accept a wider range of products, so long as the hardware manufacturer provides a driver for it.
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You can think of an OS as having a central HQ, controlling things, and various departments handling specific tasks. So the HQ might want to make some music, so it sends the commands to the audio department. Maybe it wants to save a file, so it sends a command to the disk department.
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Macs do not, intrinsically, have lower latency. It depends on the speed of the processor and the quality of the driver, and probably others too.
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