11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
3:29 a.m.
On Thu, October 11, 2012 12:11 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
No doubt about that but tablets suffer from cooling and energy issues that
have been solved for many years on desktop and server solutions. Also a
single 64 core machine is going to outperform a render farm of 64 tablets
both on price and efficiency.
Not as portable but portability is not usually a core requirement for
production systems.
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
wrote:
What makes the Audio industry so special that it can ignore the
direction
that other industries are moving?
hmm. things move in many directions at once.
arguably the biggest shift in income-based-on-selling-software in the last
several years has come from the iOS app model. its true that the embedded
markets and selling to professional users have the potential for moderate
size revenue if you can offer the products/functionality that are needed.
but one could easily argue that the direction other industries are moving
right now is "to the tablet". check the emergence of ipad-based "cash
registers" for example.
clearly, that's not the only direction things are moving in. but the point
is that there is no single direction.