Gordon.

I’m more a occasional rum and pepsi or tequila sunrise or newcastle brown beer bloke.
Yeh i know , my mates say ‘girlie drinks’ Lol

Yep i see where your coming from and reasoning. Its darn tough as the tech changes.
Notice intels strategy ? apple are now using their own silicon and ‘bingo’ intel brings out the affordable i3 12300 with a nice single thread passmark of 3673. Maybe giving some people pause in going to apple ? but 13 has a high tdp it seems.

You said ‘ But there are still many tasks for which a tablet really isn't suitable’.
Totally agree. Much as i like the cheap amazon fire i couldnt use it for applications that demand lots of ‘oomph’. We might see it in the future as tech advances further.

Ive looked at the ipads with the superb apple m cpu, but once again from what i see limited expandability. Cant put 3 m2 ssd in em for example.

I will give huge kudos to one great product including the responsive tech support thats cranked me after my initial ‘scepticism’ and thats my audient evo interface.
Just rock solid asio drivers/very low latency…and v nice mic preamps, and the smartgain feature that means one dont overload into the daw.

For me it was initially ‘ok i’ll take a chance and use for a short time till the tech gets even better at the low end and expecting possible probs’.
Not one prob.
Multi client and works a treat with my music apps. Believe me..it take a lot to impress me.

I mean i would love a high end interface like a RME with their sterling rep. or also the apollo but when gifted musicians often are lucky to make money out of their songs via streaming (20 quid a year ??) i really cant justify.
I've listened to audio examples from many interfaces//ada and the difference tween high end and low end is narrow imho.

Remember when one would buy a hifi for a few quid and it was junk ? but then if you paid a few hundred quid it was very nice ? and got you 98 percent there compared to spending lots lots more moolah ? same deal with interfaces imho.
So i’m hanging tight right now waiting for something to rock my world.

Happiness gordon.
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my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)