> think you can expect to see "artist workstations" emerge as a category with tools wrapped around a computer to help in their content creation It's already e

> think you can expect to see "artist workstations" emerge as a category with tools wrapped around a computer to help in their content creation It's already emerging. Did you see the Surface Studio and the cute little knob that they demoed by using it to change colors in a paint program? That presentation was basically Microsoft looking at artists with sexy bedroom eyes, like Apple used to a decade ago. I'd be carrying a Surface 4 Pro around in my bag right now and leaving my Air/Wacom tablet at home if the Surface's NTrig stylus worked properly with Adobe Illustrator. Next month Wacom's supposed to release their MobileStudio Pro, which has similar specs and a nice cushy Wacom pen instead of a shitty hard NTrig stylus. Which I think a hell of a lot of artists are gonna try out; their previous efforts in this space were overpriced, overweight, and underpowered, but this one looks good in the specs. There is also supposedly a new generation of styli coming out soon that will all adhere to a single standard, so an artist can go buy a Surface clone from whoever and feel confident that she can also go buy a super-nice stylus, the same way a programmer can feel confident they can get a super-awesome keyboard if they want that. Surface clones are not being marketed to artists, but we are definitely ogling them if we have the funds, and as prices drop more of us will probably end up with one.