STAM,

Here is the deal. Cubase is more powerful, flexible, expandable, with potentially better quality depending of course on the hardware.

This device is more convenient, cheaper, easier, self-contained. It is great box to do quick but decent production. Its portability allows it to be used virtually any place.

Now this box is very intereting because it has a built in rythem box and bass track. The fact that it has 20gigs harddisk (assuming that all of the 20 gigs is available for recording), CD writer, 24bit record (and hopefully at least 24 bit processing), places this machine at semi-professional level.

The cons are storage limitation, expandability limitation, cannot pick own FX plugins, limited editing and sequencing cabapability compared to a typical DAW.