> My 15-year old daughter just recently got her first desktop. Why? Well, because instead of just consuming (which she does on her phone) or doing homework (chr

> My 15-year old daughter just recently got her first desktop. Why? Well, because instead of just consuming (which she does on her phone) or doing homework (chromebook), she wanted to do video editing, and also drawing using a Wacom tablet. She found that the non-desktop options were just not that great. My about-to-be-a-college-junior daughter has been creating for years on an iPad, and she's pretty good at it. She's transferring to VCU this fall for their graphic arts program and we just set her up with a new MBP and a Wacom Intuos. She started to practice on it but finds the experience of the external tablet and viewing an image on screen much less appealing than drawing directly on her iPad. For certain tasks, the iPad is superior input device. Maybe someday the iPad won't be hobbled by iOS and it will be fully suitable for desktop tasks too. (Currently typing this on an iPad air with smart keyboard.)