Rain



 

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I see we use one common piece of equipment, at the right had side of you desk, next to the notepad.

The solution being to try and turn tablets into desktops? Sides, my fat fingers are too big to try and work in something like that, I always by the biggest tower I can find...

Glyn Barnes

Rain 

I see we use one common piece of equipment, at the right had side of you desk, next to the notepad.

Same here, but just like with other special equipment, the latest may not be the greatest ... vintage rules ;-)

Kroneborge


The solution being to try and turn tablets into desktops? Sides, my fat fingers are too big to try and work in something like that, I always by the biggest tower I can find...

Well, the tower itself doesn't do anything, does it? It's a shell, a host for components - often tucked somewhere where you can't even see and, more importantly hear it.


Do you remember Apple's cubes? Darn fine desktop computers as far as I'm concerned - maybe a tad too avant-guardistes. Or the iMac - that's a desktop. And extremely successful one this time. Though they both break away from the traditional "desktop" design.


My point being that, we can see it the other way around. Eventually, if someone wishes, he'll be able to unhook the core of it's computer and access everything via its own screen. Take it to a different location, hook it to another dock and resume work. That's the potential of the tablet.


FWIW, I don't own a tablet. And we're not there yet. But it'll be interesting to see. 

In a few years your tablet will smoke today's tablet.  Nature of the beast.

In the meanwhile maybe someone can get apple (or MS) to sponser a tablet orchestra.  That would be cool.  A bit arty, but I'd see it.

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More sign of trouble for desktops:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22103079

AT


In a few years your tablet will smoke today's tablet.  Nature of the beast.

In the meanwhile maybe someone can get apple (or MS) to sponser a tablet orchestra.  That would be cool.  A bit arty, but I'd see it.

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In a few years they might have a tablet as powerful as my current desktop (although I bet it till be closer to 6-8 years) but then my new desktop will still get that tabelt's but, and the super duper extra analog synths coming out will still require even more CPU

I don't know. Remember when computers used to be as big as this room I'm in? If you'd told someone back then that someday you'd have as much processing power in something smaller, they might have thought: then can you imagine how much more powerful a computer as big as the room will be?

Another thing is that some developers seem to love the simplicity of coding for iOS. 

I just read in my newsfeed that Korg had announced its Electribe app (no regular pc/mac version announced as far as I know) and that SampleTank is now compatible w/ AudioBus. Things are definitely moving fast.

Rain

Remember when computers used to be as big as this room I'm in?

I certainly do.  I wrote my first line of code (it had to be FORTRAN, I guess) in 1966.  It was run on a computer that was housed in an enormous room and that machine probably cost about as much as a commercial jetliner.  It was no doubt less powerful the first PC I bought over 25 years later, an Intel 286.
 
Now that I think of it, between my two PCs, my iPad and my iPod, I think it's safe to claim I've got more computing power in my home right now than was in the entire Pentagon in 1966.
 
What an amazing thing to have witnessed this history!