[nabs-l] iphone or mac?

[Tony Olivero]

Sophie,

I'm not sure where you are in your educational career (highschool,
college, post grad, etc.), but based on the things I've had to do at
one time or another I would be asking yourself if you able to, on the
Apex:

* Add headings, font styles, footnotes, running headers and footers,
page numbers, tables of contents, and properly formatted bibliography
pages to a research paper;
* Access research databases including full-text PDF documents (even
those that are missing OCRed text);
* Use a spreadsheet or other statistical analysis package to
manipulate and analyze data;
* Access web pages using modern technologies such as AJAX (submitting
forms, and retrieving data without reloading the page), ARIA (adding
extra accessibility information to make web based applications
accessible), and dynamic HTML (showing and hiding sections of a web
page, again without reloading it); and
* Access any applications that may be required by your chosen course of study.

Not knowing what you are planning to do I can't really know for sure
if the Apex is the only solution that will work, but it has been my
experience that it is still necessary to have a computer even with a
notetaking solution to be truely competetive.

Tony

On 5/13/12, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony, could you please clarify what you mean when you say
> intensive productivity? I'm afraid I don't understand exactly
> what you're trying to say. I have found my apex able to handle
> all reading, writing, and editing assignments I've had in the
> past.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Olivero <anthony at olivero.us
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> Date sent: Sat, 12 May 2012 23:27:39 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iphone or mac?
>
> 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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