That's pretty nifty. But I'm looking for something to edit movies I myself haven't shot. Yes, copyright infringement. There's software for that for my PC. I use it.

Is there an iPad app that will let me infringe* copyright like that? I doubt it. More important to me is sound editing software, but again - it would not be for music I created.

I'm looking for a tablet COMPUTER. Wake me when they arrive.




* I don't believe I'm actually infringing anyone's copyright if the stuff I do is never sold or publicly displayed.

You can edit pretty much anything in iMovie, but I don't think that Apple will release an ad that says "just rip your DVDs and transfer the files to your iPad for easy manipulation!"

Read between the lines.

Ah, wink wink, gotcha, say no more.

I'm curious, do you think computers existed in 1993?

Sure they did. Ah, DOS, how I miss thee.

But that couldn't have been a computer. It didn't let you edit movies.

Nowhere did I say a computer had to let me edit movies. I said that's what I personally plan to do with one.

Perhaps an iPhone is a technically a computer. But it's one that doesn't meet my needs; the needs that other computers do. What shall we call it then? A deficient computer?

Fine. The iPad is a deficient computer. And as soon as it becomes non-deficient and can do everything my desktop and Joe's laptop can do, I'll buy one.


Does that get around your snarky semantics?

Not really (you defined a "REAL COMPUTER" as one that can run the software you run on your laptop, and then specified that most importantly this is video and sound editing software, making me wonder how many computers you owned before you owned a "REAL COMPUTER"). But it does bring you around to my point. So I can live with that.

The iPhone does have a vibrate mode.

I laugh when I realize my iPhone has MUCH more power and capabilities then my first 4 or 5 computers.

And, Steve, they make portable versions of computers these days. Laptops will do everything you want and are really not much bigger than a tablet (they just have 2 sides, open and close and come with a case.