Smithsonian "Kontrol Surface" KS-1974

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> And the iPad (2) isn't overpriced cocktail hardware? 

Nope.

> What with the HP 
> Thinkpad (I think it's that, but HP anyway) going for $200 and before 
> even $99 on Ebay,  why on earth spend so much money on such a fashion 
> item like the iPad?


For all the apps, of course.  There are so many really productive
music-making applications for the iPad, which is waaaay ahead of
anything else in terms of pure value for money, that nothing else makes
economic sense ..  For $500 you can have an iPad2 and 10 really amazing
music-making apps which just grow and grow, feature after feature,
update after update.  No other tablet/touchpad thingy comes even close,
and no other touchpad thingy *will* come close to Apple in the immediate
future, when it comes to having access to a vast library of great
music-making tools available for, relatively, cheap ..

j.