The Apple Tablet - Enhancing the PC Experience
With only days left until Apple unveils it's "latest creation", the web is all a twitter about the mystical Apple Tablet. Let's take the audio work. Imagine taking the virtual mixer used in programs like Logic Pro, and now having that mixer portion running on your tablet while you work on the tracks on your main PC. Now, instead of using the mouse to control your levels, you could use the virtual mixer on the touch pad and change multiple levels at once with the tablet's multi-touch capabilities. Now you might be able to forgo an expensive external hardware control surface for one on your tablet.
Imagine the Final Cut Studio tools not only being able to run on the tablet, but being "tablet enabled" on your main desktop machine. In the above scenarios, the tablet isn't used as a replacement for a main PC, but as an enhancement to the main PC's user experience. People keep thinking about what the tablet might replace, but not many have been thinking of how the Tablet PC might enhance things you already do everyday. Tablets might be seen as a niche product by many right now, but soon I think we'll be introduced to a whole new world made possible by these tablet PCs.
