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I love my iPhone whole heartedly, but I still have a netbook on the way (mini 9 as a matter of fact). A few things you can't do on the iPhone. 1. Run Backgrou
by mikeryan 18y ago
I love my iPhone whole heartedly, but I still have a netbook on the way (mini 9 as a matter of fact). A few things you can't do on the iPhone.
1. Run Background Tasks (IM anyone?)
2. Edit MS Office Documents
3. Edit Code
4. Power Point
5. Run Windows Apps (this is important to me because my other main PC is a Mac - so having a small cheap windows machine comes in handy)
- potatolicious 18y agoI think you missed a big one: 6 - Not be a massive pain in the ass to use for extended periods. Yeah, I can get on IMDB and check a film's ranking pretty easily, but I can do it 10-20x faster on a laptop/netbook. Multiply that by another order of magnitude for composing long emails, or even trying to dive through multiple pages of a site rapidly. The iPhone does some things capably (moreso than its competitors anyway) but it is far from the "best" solution, not even close.
- DougBTX 18y agoIf you're using an Intel Mac, give VirtualBox a try. Handy if you need access to Windows. You can expose a folder on the Mac side as a network drive to Windows, so that any files you are working on don't need to be kept inside the virtual machine. http://www.virtualbox.org/ http://www.virtualbox.org/