Please no Mac vs. PC BS. I'll just block you because my actual answer is they both suck and Linux is superior in every way except for running music apps.
I've been on Mac and Linux since 2004 for music and non-music things respectively. I'm still happy with my hackintosh (it's been my absolute best OS X experience, bar none). But my last MBP died a while ago. And, I'm kind of missing being able to do music things on a laptop. Unfortunately, I absolutely hate the last few years' of MBPs dropping all of the useful connections and requiring a docking station or adapters. It's a price I'm not willing to pay.
What's it like on Win10 these days? Are there hoops you have to jump through to get music apps to work right (Priorities are Wavelab, Pro Tools, Traktor, and Maschine in that order; Plugins are mostly iZotope, Brainworx, and NI)? Is DPC latency behind us? Do automatic updates still screw everything up? Can you actually turn them off yet? How well does Windows do Hi-DPI scaling? Is it as slick as the way OS X or Linux works with 4k displays?
(Contrary to popular opinion, I actually prefer the way Linux does it...get rid of a bunch of the eye candy, use a huge font, and literally everything just works....it's one of the reasons I consider it superior.)
The rest of my non-music life is easiest either in a Linux VM or one of my other Linux PCs, so there's no real concern there.
Is there any reason to think that a Razer Blade 4k (when it comes out) won't do everything I need? Are there other things I should look at (wanting 8th gen i7, upgradeable RAM and SSD, and a preferably matte 4k display)?
Is it worth paying for a windows license to try stuff out on my existing hardware? And, related to the last question, how do you actually buy Windows these days? Would it be easiest to just go to a Microsoft store?
Thanks...
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