Mac tablet?

[Kenneth Sloan]

I'm configuring a Mac Pro workstation that will be doing a lot
of ImageJ work.  Any suggestions on balancing processors/memory/disk space
are welcome.

My specific question is: what TABLET would you recommend?  I'd like to provide
tablet input as an option, but I am unfamiliar with the current options.

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Kenneth Sloan
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[dscho]

Hi Kenneth,

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Kenneth Sloan wrote:

> I'm configuring a Mac Pro workstation that will be doing a lot of ImageJ
> work.  Any suggestions on balancing processors/memory/disk space are
> welcome.
>
> My specific question is: what TABLET would you recommend?  I'd like to
> provide tablet input as an option, but I am unfamiliar with the current
> options.

So far, ImageJ does not work on any mainstream tablet, mainly because
desktop Java is not supported there (keep in mind that ImageJ 1.x requires
AWT which not even Android supports).

Now, while there is a good chance that ImageJ2 will support Android some
time in the future (because Android is based on Dalvik, a mostly
Java-compatible virtual machine, which lacks support for AWT/Swing,
though), the chances of ImageJ/ImageJ2 to support iPad are virtually zero.
It has been made very clear that Apple refuses to support running Java
programs in any form, as it is incompatible with their business model.

The only chance you have to use a tablet to interact with ImageJ is by
turning it into a second display for your desktop computer. ImageJ2 might
grow a web interface at some stage, which would work, too. In any case,
ImageJ would not run on the iPad but on another machine with the tablet
merely providing the user interface.

Ciao,
Johannes

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[Kenneth Sloan]

I meant input devices like the WACOM tablet.

-Kenneth Sloan
 (von meinem iPhone4 gesendet)

On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:16, "Johannes Schindelin" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Kenneth,
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Kenneth Sloan wrote:
>
>> I'm configuring a Mac Pro workstation that will be doing a lot of ImageJ
>> work.  Any suggestions on balancing processors/memory/disk space are
>> welcome.
>>
>> My specific question is: what TABLET would you recommend?  I'd like to
>> provide tablet input as an option, but I am unfamiliar with the current
>> options.
>
> So far, ImageJ does not work on any mainstream tablet, mainly because
> desktop Java is not supported there (keep in mind that ImageJ 1.x requires
> AWT which not even Android supports).
>
> Now, while there is a good chance that ImageJ2 will support Android some
> time in the future (because Android is based on Dalvik, a mostly
> Java-compatible virtual machine, which lacks support for AWT/Swing,
> though), the chances of ImageJ/ImageJ2 to support iPad are virtually zero.
> It has been made very clear that Apple refuses to support running Java
> programs in any form, as it is incompatible with their business model.
>
> The only chance you have to use a tablet to interact with ImageJ is by
> turning it into a second display for your desktop computer. ImageJ2 might
> grow a web interface at some stage, which would work, too. In any case,
> ImageJ would not run on the iPad but on another machine with the tablet
> merely providing the user interface.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>

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