If you’ve got an iPhone you’ve got a computer. How else could you suffer through those unbearable syncs and questionable iPhone updates?* Even though you’ve got a computer you might have wondered if your iPhone can take the place of a computer. If you’re the cooking geek du jour Alton Brown the answer is “Yes.” Turns out that Alton isn’t just an iPhone user (and presumably a big fan) he also eschewed a laptop computer completely and relied solely on his iPhone when shooting Feasting on Waves.

In a interview with Gizmodo Alton reveals that he went on that shoot sans laptop:

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I did not even take a computer with me on that trip. I decided I just didn’t want to see a computer for a while. And at the time, I figured you know, computers, boats, water, scuba diving. I thought about taking the ToughBook along, and then I thought about taking the Asus because that’s a great little box. Then I thought, the hell with it. I took a few pads of paper, some pens and my iPhone.

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That’s it, an iPhone. No computer needed. Oh, you’re wondering how the iPhone performed? Thinking Alton got frequent “No Service” messages? Not so says Alton:

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It’s kinda funny, the entire time that I was in the islands, I had perfect e-mail with my iPhone. The entire time. I think there was once, during a midnight crossing, the Anegada Passage, where I lost internet for about half an hour. The rest of the time, I was getting e-mail through either EDGE or something else [probably GPRS].

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Pretty impressive. I’m guessing if he ever decides to do a cooking show from Knoxville TN (particularly in the Concord area) he’ll lose the internet for a whole lot more than half an hour.

Via Gizmodo

*For some folks, my experience has been near perfect.