I do not see the controller taking off at all (the touchscreen one). why waste money on that when you can get a multitouch lemur controller?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BMnwIbWJwI think those computers for daw use are cool, but they are very overpriced and also... what happens when your hardware is outdated? In a computer you can simply swap a part, here I doubt you can.... Another flaw is that it's kind of poorly laid out. I would much rather have one of those mc like groove boxes that you can hook up a monitor to.... or for example one of those HARDWARE vst hosts sequenced by an electribe or something.