I've been an Apple user for 13 years and it seems that the company is making changes for the worst. Obviously, they have changed from a computer company to a phone manufacturer. I recently learned that the new laptops have soldered RAm and batteries making DIY improvement impossible. In the future, I see myself moving to the PC format. Do you all have suggestions as far as which PC manufacturer is the best in your opinion, I hear samsung is pretty good. Also, is there a PC equivalent to garageband? I thank you in advance!

It depends on what you're getting and what you're going to be doing.

For laptops, I personally like Fujitsu's convertables with wacom touch screen. They're not great for playing games, though. But they're fine for audio.

I think for desktops, lots of people like Alienware cause they're all souped up for graphics and all that.

they own you. break the cycle./
use a 'shitty' upgrade-able pc if you know how to geek out. if you're prone to breaking computers, or you dont know what youre doing... stick with your apple sauce.

toshiba satelites laptop got lots of juice.
anything AMD 64 is fast and good.
little netbooks can be juiced up to 4 gigs of ram,
the new windows sucks.
maybe become familiar with linux, and you will really become a pc geek.