[nabs-l] iphone or mac?

[Tony Olivero]

Sophie,

In a way, your decision is almost comparing apples to oranges. Your
iPhone and Apex are both  portable computing solutions, where a
computer (whether you go with a mac or a Windows based system) is a
much more powerful package. If you are a student, you are likely to
want a platform capable of intensive word processing, data
calculation, and access to research databases, just to name a few
possibilities. While portable computing platforms have come a long way
in the past ten years, they still are not a replacement for the power
and functionality you gain with a computer.

It is and will likely remain my belief for some time, necessary to
have access to a desktop or notebook computer and use the portable
solution (iPhone/BraillNote in your case) for note taking, e-mail, and
other things that you need to do while mobile, and continue to use a
computer for intensive productivity tasks.

Tony

On 5/11/12, Valerie Gibson <valandkayla at gmail.com> wrote:
> depends on what you're after. my first thought was terminal, or an ssh
> client.
> apart from that, a larger storage space, and it's faster.
> I guess if you lumped the bn and iPhone into one ball, you'd have almost the
> same features of the mac, but maybe i'm forgetting something.
> oh, not sure if the bn can do ftp either.
> On May 11, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Sophie Trist wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I currently use a braillenote apex and an iPhone 4S running IOS 5.1. I am
>> debating the issue of whether I should get a Mac, and your input would be
>> very helpufl in this decision, because I know a lot of y'all use a Mac
>> with Voiceover. My main question is, what abilities does a Mac have that
>> an iPhone and braillenote do not have?
>> Yours,
>> Sophie
>>
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