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 p.3 #13 · I think i'm going to buy a windows 8 tablet | |
jzucker wrote:
And the key will be that it can run windows software such as lightroom and has a standard usb and hdmi port, runs flash, etc. no limits.
The ipad hardware is great but the platform, not so great for my use.
carstenw wrote:
I guess you will need a mouse and a keyboard then, to do any kind of efficient work with Lightroom. And if you want to develop, you will need serious power too, which means greater weight and a serious battery. I don't see how this can possibly end up well  It will be a laptop with an external keyboard in the end.
I've plugged a keyboard, mouse, 3TB HDD, and game controller into my Galaxy phones and it all just worked without a hitch (wireless devices work just as well too!). And that's running android not really even tuned for such things. 
I think Apple realised early that trying to make tablets as powerful as laptops is a losing proposition. I would be curious to see if Microsoft can find some way to pull it off, but I am skeptical.
I think 75% of it is expectation. I don't expect much from a freak'n telephone and therefore I'm flabbergasted at it's performance!
In the same breath however I think anyone wanting to edit photos on anything but the most powerful desktops and notebooks had ought to consider ditching tools like Aperture and LightRoom. They're dogs in the first place - coded to take advantage of fast multicore procs with lots and lots of system recourses instead of the coders actually having to think and streamline their function code! Ya better go with a tool that was specifically written with that platform in mind (tiny touch-screen, 1.5 dual or quad core, memory bank switching with low local-buss RAM profiles, and so on! I can almost guarantee none of the current major players will yield worthy in the foreseeable future. So you're better off ditching LR, Aperture, C1, LS and the like.
And on that note I have to say I'm impressed as hell with the little (barely multi-functional) apps available for the Android system. 8-12mpx seems perfectly doable on either my 1.56GHz dual core GN or my quad-core S3. Warps, Color Correction, Content Aware element removal, Sharpening and micro-contrast boosting, Exposure Comps, Scaling, Copping, Rotating, Perspective corrections, even FX like soft-focus and so... All seem to operate at about the same speeds (probably due to my lower expectations!) as they do on my monster 8-core 2.66GHz MacPro with 32 gigs RAM and nearly 20TB of high-speed RAID storage. While I wouldn't wanna invasively process hundreds of images on the phones they're plenty good enough for light edits all around, or for a few field edits to show proof of concept on-site for whatever reasons.
jzucker wrote:
again, i'm not interested in editing. All I want to do is interactively allow my clients to pick the prints they want. This sometimes involves minor tweaks such as cropping or adjusting exposure. I don't use the notebook for real editing but I do download the cropping adjustments to my desktop when I'm back in the office. Actually doing the editing on the tablet doesn't really help me much since it's not the raw files that are on the tablet/notebook...
Then yeah, I would say a tablet (either Android or Win8 IMO) is really the way to go! Either a tablet or one of those laptops that let you transform them into a tablet form factor.  For multiple people looking on and making selections the tablet form can't be beat - well not until holography comes into fruition more-so anyway.
Edited on Oct 10, 2012 at 09:40 AM · View previous versions
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