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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by wilsonnb on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:53PM (#16100427)
I agree that a traditional desktop or laptop computer is a more productive text processing machine than an iPad, partially due to the physical keyboard and partially due to limitations in iOS.

For other productive tasks like music creation or digital drawing, where text is far less important than it is in programming, writing documents, using a spreadsheet, etc, the iPad is arguably superior to the traditional desktop setup.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by nrhk on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @12:29PM (#16107878)
Meh to a certain extent but I'd rather use a giant Wacom on my desktop with all its processing power when using something like Zbrush then to do it over an iPad. Same with music, it's a lot easier to present dense amounts of information when you actually have the real estate to display it.
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