I had similar issues with a program the other day. I finally broke down and copied the VMWare version of XP that I have at work to my home system. It made me feel dirty, but at least I could take solace in the fact that VMware doesn't work well with the newest version of ubuntu, so I had to make a patch and move some gcc files around. i felt more like a proper geek after that.
In a meeting yesterday with my College's Dean and a couple of our administrators, I learned that the College of Medicine will be using the Touch as a PDA for drug information and other medical stuff. Our IT manager predicted that in a couple years most doctors and pharmacist will be using the Touch instead of the current (mostly Palm) PDA's (this was sorta a tangent in our meeting, but when the Dean goes on a tangent, you go along for the ride of course). I don't know, hope this is somewhat relevant to your post, I just never really thought of the Touch as a PDA but more as a iPod, guess I'm becoming an old man and letting technology get ahead of me (although I've never, ever, been an Apple fan)
Yeah, it's pretty cool that the Touch is so useful as much more than just the usual iPod, and it's interesting that the College of Medicine has recognized that. The wi-fi and web browser make it amazingly useful without any music on there, and in many ways it's what a modern PDA should be, minus the phone. There are some indications that Apple has tried to cripple the Touch software slightly compared to the iPhone (beyond the limitations of the hardware), though they may be relenting on that
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