HP 2510us laptop w/ ati radeon gc & wacom touch screen: Now only used to play games ...and it cost $1,100 Oh well

I think I made a wise move by getting her an iphone as well, so we both have new lovers!

I sync over air my calendar, email, contacts with free tools provided by Google (Google Sync) and Apple.

The same goes for my documents. Since I use Google Docs for spreadsheets, documents and presentations, all of those can be access and edited on my iPhone.

I am an Internet Social Media Marketing manager for many clients so most of all the sites that I regularly need to access, all have apps build for them for the iPhone.

Lastly, I do my banking, invoicing, keyword bid management, blogging, social networking, and analytics analysis all on my iPhone.

I am thinking twice about purchasing the netbook. Maybe I will wait til Apple develops one.

-Peter Leshaw

One man operation limousine service in Hawaii i get my bookings by e-mail, i confirm them with a couple clicks, sing my signature is the confirmation details to customers.

Then i enter the reservation on my online dispatch, i get lots of requests from Japan and here is where copy and paste save me the trip to my house to translate it and respond.

I use Translate app. It works amazing and i run my whole business from the iphone.

On sundays when on the job I can listen with allradio app. my favority soccer game from Argentina live.

I have in my pocket so many devices more than my laptop

aloha all!

I can forsee a time when you will get a little fold-up keyboard to plug into it, and a cable to hook it up to a display and that will be your basic, mac mini-esque machine.

But previously I took my laptop everywhere. It's easily cut out 20%-25% of the dragging around. If I could get a bluetooth keyboard (or even a wired keyboard the plugs into the dock) I think I could drop it to 50%-70%.

I'd have to buy a more convenient external battery pack for the iPhone though.

RIght now I throw one of these ( http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-CP120B-20-Watt-Battery/dp/B000H78YXQ ) in my bag for when I need to charge it (which I picked up cheap on Woot). But it's still a new toy so I use it a lot...

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Bob

It seems if you have nothing to do but email and web surfing the iPhone does ok.

If you have any REAL work involving real applications, real documents, editing, originating, responding to professional communications, or in any way manipulating something other than email files, the phone is a strict NO GO.

I think iDavey hit the nail right on the head. Had netbooks been available earlier many if not most casual computer users would be better served by something of that nature.

Its not like I haven't tried.

I've been a long time users of iSSH, and the newly integrated Xserver and VNC server built into it are great, but realistically its for emergency use only where I have to access a server half way across the country while I'm sitting in a restaurant. How often does that happen?

iPhone won't run anything related to my work other than the Email/IMs I get from my customers. Its a miserable platform for terminal emulation. I couldn't dream of taking a business trip without my Laptop.

download my torrents, do my my homework, log into my work computer remotely-COMFORTABLY, watch pornography (jk) and many other things I can't think of right now.

I do need my iphone to tether though, so i guess i need both!

I have terabytes of company data. On the company intranet, not held locally on my device.

I could see a phone being a great replacement for your media needs...but real work. I just don't see it.

I mean...one, the limitation of hard disks pace. 32 is very nice. But who is ONLY using 32GB or less on their current laptop. Most these people saying yes should never have gotten a laptop. Should've just invested in a netbook. Then let it go when they got a iPhone (or your choice of smartphone...because basically this applies to every smartphone one the market)

Answer: HELL NO.

It is a complement not a replacement. Besides even though the phone is great lets not kid ourselves its not exactly on the cutting edge, leave that for more powerful devices.

Funny though that I feel I can get by on the current processor as my computing needs have dropped way off in the past few years. I'm no longer playing all of the games and such.

REALLY close...

It's effectively useless when it comes to documents though. I can't get a spreadsheet emailed to me, edit it, and email it back (or certainly not without a hell of alot of mucking about)

It's going to need some sort of "finder", or user accessible file system - to take over my laptop completely.

I can type on my iPhone (which I'm doing right now), but I would love a keyboard dock!

The iPhone is a damn fine usable device. I can't say I have made any Word docs or spreadsheets the way I used to on my Newton MP 2100 (my Palms and BBs weren't that great at that either, BTW), but it does LOTS of things far better than any device I have ever used.

@apples, I'm getting the same way. The facebook app needs a major update though as it doesn't mirror the website now and has some issues. But email, twitter, IM, weather, stocks, even news I barely ever check on my laptop anymore. Almost all is done on my iPhone now. Only open Gmail on my laptop when I have to type a fairly long email.

My laptop is pretty much just a media hub at home now as when I'm on the couch it's my iPhone that is with me. I also game a lot, but the iPhone hasn't really cut into Xbox time yet.

Also, if you iPhone supported Flash, your battery life would be a 1/3 of it what it is.

Not having Flash on an iPhone is a feature that I like.

The iPhone is nice, but whenever I leave my house for extended periods i have my laptop and phone. When I can't use my laptop i'll use my phone

But as soon as I get a chance, I connect my phone to my laptop and get the tethering going. Just easier to work with...

For heavy typing, layout work or design work, the iPhone is not there yet, but getting awfully close

I'm currently considering writing a browser just for myself to achieve this (I'm guess it would not get appstore approval or someone else would have already done this though).

As for the future.... When they come out with a keyboard to connect to the iPhone I still do not see it replacing the laptop. Think of this, your on a business trip and you want to create/edit/whatever a presentation and or document/email. Now you need to carry around your iPhone, keyboard, TV connectivity cables. Why not just have your laptop and be done with it?

Yes the iPhone is a great phone but it will always be a secondary device to a laptop for users as it will not and cannot replace a laptop.

But I'd prefer Bluetooth...