Should mobile devices be powerful?

>>55796565
What sorts of production are you talking about? Obviously in an ideal world you'd have a workstation for the vast majority of your work and then use laptops for smaller tasks and edits on the road.

>>55796578
I'm saying there is a point where processing power is needed. You can run Excel and Office on literally anything, and probably Fruity Loops or other business software.

Devices are marketed as empowering the consumer but they don't seem to actually be powerful enough to do 3D stuff, rendering, or graphic design. What does powerful even mean in the mobile world since even the top offering can't match a $100 dedicated desktop GPU? Why do we have i7s in laptops or expensive graphics cards that are awful compared to desktop and do nothing but drain power and underperform?

>>55796640
Well it's the illusion of power imo. If you're on the road and need to do something professionally you'll work within whatever limitations your system has to get it done or lose your jobs. I've worked with people that have been rendering stuff in blender on a fucking MacBook Air because that's what's available.

I work in music so I can really only comment on that. There are shows run entirely on 8 year old hardware, tablets or bloody Mac mini's.

It's easy to get suckered in to believing that power is the problem solver so we have ridiculous devices like the surface book when 9 times out of 10 your problem will be due to stability, something an i7 won't solve.

Basically I agree with you completely and it's telling that these devices are touted as empowering the consumer, rather than the professional. It's the same reason people bought 4K TVs when there was no content.

>>55797197
>rendering stuff in blender on a fucking MacBook Air

Sounds harrowing