Different tools for different tasks. Can you score a movie whilst maintaining perfect clock sync with umpteen devices via SMPTE and load-balance your DSP across

Different tools for different tasks. Can you score a movie whilst maintaining perfect clock sync with umpteen devices via SMPTE and load-balance your DSP across a cluster of computers whilst recording an orchestra in real-time? Can you do digital productions in Unreal whilst designing the set in real-time and showing it to the director in-camera as the cast are on set? No, and I wouldn't want to try anyway. What you're describing is fairly basic stuff, and the computational resources required to perform those tasks has been outpaced by the miniaturization and price-to-performance value of a smartphone or tablet. But complex tasks have always required complex tools, and complex tasks become more and more complex over time, they take advantage of modern-day performance. The smartphone is the modern-day personal computer. A workstation is still a workstation, and just because it comes in an ATX tower doesn't mean it's consumer-grade hardware.