Is Windows 8 the biggest news in touch apps?

[jim_branning]

well the news now is that windows 8 will not be able to play dvd's

brilliant!

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/foru...playback_dead/

[cacofonix]

well it perhaps is relevant, or the entire professional film, tv and most of the music industry wouldn't use them.

But yes as you say, if you don't go on-line to save overheads from protection s/w it's more ideal, but few typical home users have that luxury of being able to run one machine for work and one for web.

these users in the usa must be quite unique anyway.I wonder what they are running that's problematic?

as to the topic, it's odd this whole control business. I find even if you have a controller system one tends to just use the mouse and keys as usual. and as mentioned, one needs screen estate above touch-screen. Bit of a gimmick imo, designed more for tablets, but then thats where typical home computing (browse & email mainly) is going anyway let's face it.

i spose apple has the magic trackpad thingy one can use if you really prefer finger touch to mouse

Lack of backwards compatibility. Firmware upgrades which take out software (Maya 7). Parallels 4 fubarred by osx Lion, Access Virus TI banks no longer automatically coordinated, resulting in bank scan for twenty minutes before logic will be able to use it.

Zero support even if you pay for the enhanced package "you need to reinstall osx" - I did that, and it was a firmware upgrade, and it can't be downgraded. "oh. That's true. You'll have to get a new graphics card without the firmware upgrade and that will be at cost." But the mac is only a few hours old and I bought it to run Maya, and now it won't. "sorry, can't help you".

Having run 3.11 to win 7 inclusive (apart from W2000) and linux (from mandrake to Suse and Debian), I find that the mac is reliable, but I expect it to fuck up some software on every upgrade.

[jim_branning]

Lack of backwards compatibility. Firmware upgrades which take out software (Maya 7). Parallels 4 fubarred by osx Lion, Access Virus TI banks no longer automatically coordinated, resulting in bank scan for twenty minutes before logic will be able to use it.

Zero support even if you pay for the enhanced package "you need to reinstall osx" - I did that, and it was a firmware upgrade, and it can't be downgraded. "oh. That's true. You'll have to get a new graphics card without the firmware upgrade and that will be at cost." But the mac is only a few hours old and I bought it to run Maya, and now it won't. "sorry, can't help you".

Having run 3.11 to win 7 inclusive (apart from W2000) and linux (from mandrake to Suse and Debian), I find that the mac is reliable, but I expect it to fuck up some software on every upgrade.

yeah, well i'm sticking with snow leopard, but cant run final cut x (that's a graphics card upgrade required however, not OS), so i stick with FCP7

don't update os until reports come back that the s/w u use works. golden rule really.

[nhoggard]

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Originally Posted by nhoggard
Yes, Windows 7 supports touch, but there are no capacitative touch tablets on the market Windows 7 as far as I know. There will be loads od touch tablets for Windows 8.
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Are you for real?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&...t+PC+windows+7

Aren't these pen-input devices though, rather than capacitative input finger-touch devices?

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I said that Windows 8 will be big news "in the world of touch apps". I didn´t say that touch apps will take over from other apps.
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Mystic meg right there. Your point might have been this (and blindingly obvious) but you dressed it up in nonsense.

It may be blindingly obvious, but a google search at the time of my post revealed more or less nothing said anywhere about music software and Windows 8 tablets.

[digitalscream]

Getting back to the original post (I'm not touching the OS X thing, for once), there's a big point that a lot of people seem to have missed:

You can fit more ARM cores in a single package, for a lot less money. They also excel at realtime processing. These two things alone are going to make a huge difference for audio work.

Yes, most x86 parts can do more work in a single thread than ARM CPUs (although with the newer 1.6GHz+ ARM units, that advantage is dwindling fast), but with an ARM package you can spread the work across a lot more cores. Hopefully, we'll see desktops with ARM CPUs soon...again. I'm pretty convinced that an 8- or 16-core ARM machine at a conservative 1.5GHz would knock spots off your average 3GHz quad-core x86 machine for audio processing.

Yes, I still believe that the Archimedes was the best computer ever built compared to its peers. In fact, I reckon I've still got one somewhere...