Do you create, or consume?
An ipad has somewhere around 1 gigaflops of processing power.
Apple's ads brag about this.
1 WHOLE GIGAFLOP of processing power! Equivilant to a supercomputer (sometime in the past).
An Intel Core i7 processor ~80 gigaflops of processing power.
1 gigaflop. Vs. 80. That is Ford Model T's 20 hp engine vs. a 1800 HP engine.
So, if you wanted to say, process some HD video, what would take a PC 1 minute to render and preview would take 70-80 minutes on an iPad (assuming the battery lasted that long under heavy load).
There is no free lunch here - you pay less... you get less - a lot less. Try to run photoshop on 1 gigaflop of power, and well, it uh, sucks really bad. Are you a creative artist, or are you a 'dumb' media consumer?
Want to write a novel? The best input device for that is a keyboard. You learn where the keys are, and you can input at up to 80 words per minute. On a media consuption device like iPad.. 3, hell, maybe 4 words per minute...
"THE PC IS DEAD".
Uh.. sure. It's dead to the majority of idiot Americans who are too boring to createsometing. For those of us that are creative and want to make stuff...
- Lime
Fuck apple.
(Ahhh it's great to speak out against the mindless masses!)
