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It depends on what you're doing and what your budget is. Shoot & edit on one device, plus an excellent drawing experience, is pretty compelling when you're talk

It depends on what you're doing and what your budget is. Shoot & edit on one device, plus an excellent drawing experience, is pretty compelling when you're talking about a device for a kid to learn on, and the main things it'll be used for are video & drawing. You don't need 2TB of built-in storage for that, either. Only way I can see that not being the option to beat, is if your goal is to learn the UI (not the concepts or techniques) for pro-tier desktop editing software. Then, yes, of course you have to have a desktop. I think "non-starter" is overstating the case against the iPad, for the particular tasks and user-profile stated. > video editing desktop with two large 27" monitors for $1k I need to know where you're buying monitors.

Talanes 5y ago
If I'm spending that kind of money on a teenager, not putting it all into one easily lose-able device is a value-add of it's own.
fiftyfifty 5y ago
Most devices these days including the iPad and things like Go Pros film in at least 720P which absolutely fills up storage space in no time at all. I started filming my kids' sporting events in HD and editing them on my laptop and I completely filled up 1 terabyte of storage on my computer in no time at all. Then I had to start playing the game of moving older stuff to external storage which totally sucks if you want to go back to it quickly. 1 minute of 1080P video at 60fps is around 200MB depending on the format, an hour is like 12 gigs. The only reasonable way to manage almost any amount of HD video is on a desktop system with loads of cheap(er) storage.
- handrous 5y ago
  Well yeah, for bulk video storage you could eat 2TB easily. Active files for an editing project at 1080P, especially if you're weeding through footage after each day of shooting (if you don't, you'll go nuts later), 512GB should be OK.
yellowapple 5y ago
> I need to know where you're buying monitors. Amazon has Sceptre 27" 1080p monitors for less than $150 right now. The two 4K ones I'm using of the same size/brand were about $250 as of October.

Talanes 5y ago

If I'm spending that kind of money on a teenager, not putting it all into one easily lose-able device is a value-add of it's own.

fiftyfifty 5y ago

Most devices these days including the iPad and things like Go Pros film in at least 720P which absolutely fills up storage space in no time at all. I started filming my kids' sporting events in HD and editing them on my laptop and I completely filled up 1 terabyte of storage on my computer in no time at all. Then I had to start playing the game of moving older stuff to external storage which totally sucks if you want to go back to it quickly. 1 minute of 1080P video at 60fps is around 200MB depending on the format, an hour is like 12 gigs. The only reasonable way to manage almost any amount of HD video is on a desktop system with loads of cheap(er) storage.

handrous 5y ago
Well yeah, for bulk video storage you could eat 2TB easily. Active files for an editing project at 1080P, especially if you're weeding through footage after each day of shooting (if you don't, you'll go nuts later), 512GB should be OK.

yellowapple 5y ago

> I need to know where you're buying monitors. Amazon has Sceptre 27" 1080p monitors for less than $150 right now. The two 4K ones I'm using of the same size/brand were about $250 as of October.