Anyone know what the Apple A4 processor they designed really is?
Aren't all apple products?
/runs and hides
Many people use Macs because it's the best tool for them. I personally wouldn't touch Windows with a 10 ft pole but respect people who choose to use it.
If you're asking for an actual iMac with a touch interface, forcing you to not only shift your hands away from the keyboard to the mouse, but also up and waving around on the screen you try to work on - then YES you're the only one wishing for that kind of ergonomic disaster.
I have to agree that a DJ app would seem to fit awesomely.I thought mac were all the rage for music, arts etc. a few years ago?
imagine using your fingers to tune virtual mixers, equalizers and stuff, plus using your computer (desktop or laptop or tablet) as a lighting console. even adding more touch screens when needed, on USB or video + USB, or networked ones, or using your iPad as a touch screen for the main computer.
What an ergonomic disaster that would be!
The problem is not the touch based interface ... it's combining it with a vertical display in front of you. Would you position physical mixers, equalizers and stuff vertically?I thought mac were all the rage for music, arts etc. a few years ago?
imagine using your fingers to tune virtual mixers, equalizers and stuff, plus using your computer (desktop or laptop or tablet) as a lighting console. even adding more touch screens when needed, on USB or video + USB, or networked ones, or using your iPad as a touch screen for the main computer.
What an ergonomic disaster that would be!
You are firmly seated in the "rich" category then.I know you're kidding by I've heard that from many people in the past. I have 17 computers at home, 6 of which are Macs. When I got my Mac Pro this coworker starts questioning my "geekiness", so I invite him to see the computer room in my apartment and there it is: my Sun Fire 4800, among my SGI and Sun workstations, my RS/6000 and my VAX. The guy didn't even say a word and has never questioned my technical background again.
To go back on topic I'm a bit disappointed with the iPad but will get one anyway to play with the 3D hardware and browse the web from the couch/take it on plane trips and so on.
The time frame of development for the iPad makes a 250-MHz SGX535 or 540 with a Cortex-A8 the logical choice.
Support for the wide variety of general purpose apps maintained by iPhone OS is enough to meet the need of functionality for the mass market, so a desktop OS with its manual file and folder management is unnecessary and overcomplicated.
Controllable multitasking is a feature abused more often than utilized, so support for fast closing and reopening of state-saved apps, push notifications from inactive apps, a clipboard, and iPod music runnable in the background combines into a decent trade-off of functionality for the savings in performance and power.
Anyone know what the Apple A4 processor they designed really is?
The problem is not the touch based interface ... it's combining it with a vertical display in front of you. Would you position physical mixers, equalizers and stuff vertically?
Do pay attention to context please ... this was not about the iPad, this was about using a touch interface on the iMac.I don't quite understand this. It does have an accelerometer built-in, so you can tilt the screen at will and it will change orientation.
Actually, yes.I'm just curious ... if Apple had a macbook pro 11" which could fold it's screen over the keyboard to go into tablet form. Twice the weight and thickness, but nearly the same battery life and all the creature comforts of a real laptop (large storage, no need to transcode to 720P30, all your desktop applications, no hoop jumping required to connect it to other hardware).
Would any of you still be interested in the iPad? Because for those of us not tied to OSX that's what we can get right now.