Thread: Nokia N900 Counter-Arguments for Complaints
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gerbick
2010-05-31 , 08:03
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Originally Posted by aspidites View Post
I suppose you neglected to read all the responses. Your argument is as silly as "If my box running windows <insert version here> can't read ext3 partitions? how can it be called a computer" or "If <insert statement here> can't run Safari, how can you call it a computer".
That's a rather bad analogy. Safari is not an exclusive manner to get to the web. Each OS has their own default method to get to the internet.

And each OS can read certain file system partitions. A reasonable person would know that Windows will be able to read NTFS and FAT32, Mac OS X will read FAT32, HFS, HFS+. And Linux will read ext3, ext2, ReiserFS et al.

To assume past that is folly - out of the box, that is.

The (in)ability to open a particular file format or do OS-specific tasks doesn't (dis)qualify a machine as a computer.
Agree here. But you needed to be a bit more specific earlier, which (in my opinion) was somewhat incorrect because it left too much room for error.

In fact, by default, stock Windows laptops can't open excel spreadsheets either without first installing (or having pre-installed) microsoft office.
Matters. Most come with the Excel, PowerPoint viewers. I can, however read *.doc files in Wordpad out of the box.

But as a "mobile computer" the N900 does fit the fact that you can indeed install an application (after purchase) that will extend to read, edit and manipulate *.doc, *.xls and *.ppt (among other MS Office) formats.

Oh... and *.doc was originally used by WordPerfect. It was their original proprietary file format before Microsoft adopted it. I remember that from my WordStar days.

You might want to correct that part.