Re:Netbooks are still a great deal
by stcredzero on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:04AM
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Your comment is biased towards production in the narrow context of computers/web browsing. That sort of activity, for most people, requires a computer keyboard, which the iPad lacks, so it's a foregone conclusion.
There are other sorts of activities that do not have a computer keyboard as the most efficient input method.
I'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself. It is just a controller application that you use to send OSC messages to either a synthesizer or a "real" computer that actually generates the sound.
A question for the iPad musicians: Surely there are pro-audio iPad applications that generate sound, but does the sound have to go through the consumer-grade audio output or can you send it to the DAW via the USB add-on?
Re:Netbooks are still a great deal
by stcredzero on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:06PM
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I'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself.
You're probably missing the point. Interface is the whole point of the iPad. Interface + processing ability is a lot of what the ongoing computer revolution has been and will be about.
EDIT: of course the question then is if an ordinary user can do with an iPad most of the time or not.
When you look at a user generated site there's a 90/9/1-rule, that is, 90% of visitors are viewers only, 9% comment or rate or make small contributions and 1% create stuff.
Perhaps a similar division can be seen in how we use the internet during a day. 90% of the time we only consume - then an iPad is fine. It's the the other 10% we need a laptop with a keyboard.