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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Patrick Shirkey  wrote:
 [ ... me talking about tablets .. ]
> No doubt about that but tablets suffer from cooling and energy issues that

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> 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.

>

sure, but this is not relevant to your question: "What makes the Audio

industry so special that it can ignore the direction that other industries

are moving?"
the problem is that the question is ill-formed. there is no single

direction that other industries are moving in. various companies clearly

think that the tablet has an important role to play in future audio

technology. are they wrong? that question is also ill-formed. you asked

your question no doubt because you perceive many different industries

"adopting" linux in various ways. this is just one of many directions that

many different industries are moving, and they are not all moving in all of

them. the audio tech industry, like the rest, will pick and choose.

"adoption of linux" is not written in stone, or even on paper, no more than

"adoption of iOS tablets" is.
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 Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com> wrote:

=A0[ ... me talking about tablets .. ] =A0No 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.
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an ignore the direction that other industries are moving?"

the problem is that the question is ill-formed. there is no single directio=

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ux" is not written in stone, or even on paper, no more than "adop=

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