With only days left until Apple unveils it’s “latest creation”, the web is all a twitter about the mystical Apple Tablet. I myself scour the web for news so I can stay on top of it all, but also because I’m excited by where mainstream tablet PCs aimed at consumers could take the future of personal computing.

For example, aside from this website, I also do a lot of audio, video and graphics work, and I try to image what the Apple Tablet might do to help me in those ventures as well. 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.

You could apply that thinking to other programs as well. Imagine the Final Cut Studio tools not only being able to run on the tablet, but being “tablet enabled” on your main desktop machine. By this, I mean having Final Cut know when you have the tablet connected (via Bluetooth, perhaps?) and now the tablet becomes an accessory you can use to control tasks on the main editing machine.
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