The implication of this thread is you can't do creative or even useful work on a Tablet or phone.
This is complete nonsense.
Not only can you use a phone for art I know people who have published books and got prestigious awards for exclusively using an iPhone.
Ever seen the audio apps available on the iPad? There's some seriously impressive synths available Wavegenerator, iMS20, Animoog and more.
There's even a big multi-channel recording app - a DAW on a iPad.
Granted the first iPads or Android tablets weren't very powerful but the latest ones are now at G5 performance level. Next year they'll be even faster.
Games are also getting good. They surprisingly close to console level even on current phones.
The need for any type of desktop is rapidly dying out. Computers have long since becomes fast enough for the vast majority of needs.
There will always be a need for faster machines but they're uses are limited. I have a high end laptop because I do high megapixel imaging, video and record music. That said maxing out the machine is actually quite difficult, most of these apps are bound by the speed of the disc drive (even the fast SSD it has isn't fast enough).
Note I say it's a laptop - I haven't used a desktop as a main machine at home for 10 years now.
PC sales have recently fallen. Tablets and phones are selling like hot cakes and are already hitting the PC market, unlike the PC market they are growing rapidly. A new release of Windows is always a big earner for PC vendors, not this time though, Windows 8 doesn't seem to have much of an impact.
There is a bit of irony about discussing this on an Amiga site though. Amiga's were never about raw CPU speed, they were about the clever use of hardware to do the heavy lifting - exactly what phones and tablets do.
In any case OS4 or MorphOS have never run on high-end hardware. If speed was important everyone would have switched to AROS years ago.
