Gina Trapani ask her followers on Twitter whether they are going to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS or not.You can see the compilation of answers here.

“So, are you getting an iPhone 3GS? Why or why not? (Will compile and report back best responses.)”

One of the answers says (by @megnut):

“Yes, iPhone = my computer, and $399 is worth it. Haven’t bought new laptop since late 06 and don’t plan to for long time.”

I think this raises a very interesting point. Has the iPhone become powerful enough to replace your laptop? So the tiny keyboard and smaller screen are drawbacks but it’s pretty amazing that you can do simple photo editing and create documents & spreadsheets, yea?

Rene from The iPhone Blog said:

A couple of friends of mine who work in IT administration have been telling me the same thing since the iPhone 3G launched. One of them recently left his laptop behind and took only an iPhone with him on a motorcycle trip and conference, and was still able to keep on top of his servers.

While the sheer volume of writing and editing demanded by TiPb still keeps me chained to a laptop, I’ll also admit to leaving the MacBook behind and running out with only my iPhone whenever I can — and yes, I’ve been likewise amazed at not only how much I can now accomplish with a mobile computing device, but how easily I can accomplish it.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball also expressed his views:

This, to me, gets to the heart of the revolution at hand. A decade ago, my first PowerBook was a secondary machine to the desktop anchored at my desk. Now, my main machine is my MacBook Pro, but it feels a bit like an anchor now. My mobile secondary computer is my iPhone.

My Thoughts

I think the iPhone will play a bigger role in people’s mobile computing. But will or can it replace your laptop? I think it really depends on your needs. For people with light usage (checking email, casual web browsing), I think the iPhone could definitely be an alternative. For me, it will. I don’t do a lot of heavy mobile computing and therefore carrying a laptop would be illogical.

What are your thoughts?

Below is a Friendfeed conversion about this subject:

Nifty Little Web was launched on April the 11th 2009 meaning that it’s just under 3 months old. The aim of this website was to link and post interesting, funny, amazing and helpful stuff that are scattered across the internet. However if you take a look in the archives, I seem to have drifted off posting mostly fail and ownage pictures. To those who enjoyed those posts, I’m glad you did. To those who got sick and tired of them, I apologize and promise to post a variety of different posts in the future.

OK. But the main point of this post is to announce version 2 of Nifty Little Web. The main changes are a new design, restructured use of categories and tags and of course better content.

Also, I want to thank my friend Joe who is the creator of LiveCrunch for helping me with the setup of this site.

NOTE: Redesigning and restructuring is a lengthy and hard process. So over the next few days, you may see errors or ugly layouts on this website. If you do, please let me know. Thank you (Y).