Hi guys. I've used the Opensystems NEKO for some testing and its absolutely heaven. it works great with jaws 7 and caketalking for sonar 4.04 which was the test platform I was running. I had the Native Instruments KOMPLETE system installed on it with sonar and a few other synth plug ins. I was so impressed by the feel of it and its operation. the touch screen is basically something for you not to worry about. its just so you can treat it like a paper and pen if you like so you can draw in wave envelopes and multiple edit fields etc. its control system is perfect and well worth considering. so take a good look at it. though for the price I'd be more looking at the idea of the PC side and staying there. I would buy one for touring use so Idon't have to take multiple system cases etc. you can install any PCI based audio cards etc in the system and have full reliability from it. go for it. trust me its a real beauty.