PC or Mac thoughts for creative

[DegasBrush]

Budget (including currency): $1500 - $3,000 NZD

Country: New Zealand

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Affinity Suite, Zero Adobe apart from Acrobat DC, ACDSee DAM Raw editiing, and gaming for about 3-5 AAA Titles

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Okay I currently have a three years old PC Self built main rig, MB: Gigabyte Z370H, Intel i5 9400F, AMD RX 580 GPU, 16gb 2666 DDR4 Ram, 512Gb Evo M.2 Samsung SSD, Asus Wifi/BT card in Mid ATX Case.

I just bought an M1 11" iPad Pro for procreate and the bonus is that Affinity also works on this as an artist and a designer. So I am conflicted about upgrading the PC... if I want to upgrade to current it's a new MB, CPU and whatever GPU I can get (More for the gaming titles) so here's the thing.. bearing in mind I used to use Mac for years c.1995 - 2014 or so. I first had a 17" desktop replacement now replaced by the iPad and eventually built the PC rig. The games are important as is the design and artwork. My consideration is do I upgrade my rig that will do everything I need however whatever I build will be inferior to an M1X product.. so maybe I get a better power/value proposition with a new M1X Mac Mini so integrate better with the ipad and keep my current rig for the games? and use my monitor with both? or I guess I could just get a gaming monitor and keep it all separate.. has anyone else had or having a conflict? Looking for some practical thoughts.. Cheers 

[PhilAstisxh]

I do also own an iPad Pro M1 11", and a MacBook Air (Base - Configuration), and if you want to do creative stuff, I would go with the Mac solution. Im very happy, and believe me, you'll love the eco - system from apple. I think that the new M1 devices, are amazing, but I also would wait, because I think, that apple is going to reveal M2 / M1x in the near future.

 

You said, that you have a PC already, that means, that you already have a monitor too, so I think you could go with a MacMini M1 16 Gigs, and you do not have to spend your whole budget!

[DegasBrush]

Cheers - the reason I am feeling Mac mini is that if I want to upgrade me over 3yrs old PC I need new CPU, and new motherboard, as well as the GPU and  I could spend at least $2k NZD and still be no where close to the performance of an M1 Mac Mini let alone the new updated ones due soon! I've got a Dell Ultra Sharp 27" 2k.. games perfectly fine I can have both plugged in and switch.

 

I keep thinking why would/should I have two computers but the performance of the M1 or upcoming Mchip compared to WinTel or even AMD right now.. it would just about be a no brainer.. thanks for taking the time to respond.