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Supercalculators

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-22 0:49

I'm thinking about getting a new calculator.  I've had a TI92 for ages and ages, and I'd like to get something that's like that, but more powerful and faster.  From what I read on Amazon, the TI Voyage 200 is the best thing TI sells, but it doesn't seem like it's such a big step up from the TI92 to be worth $200.

Basically, I want Maple but on something handheld.  Is there anything else out there?  I guess I could just buy a netbook and run Maple on that.  That'd only be like $50 more. :/

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-24 2:21

Yeah, the calculator companies kind of topped out the product 10 years ago.  The latest batch are just faster and have more memory, and are ugly parodies of cell phones with fucked up button shapes.  Try a lateral move for something different, such as HP 50G which is the current version of a series that people pay lots on ebay for the ealier HP 48G series (GX for expandable) but the development team folded after that, then HP came out with a version with buttons that people said were too fragile, but is supposed to be better now with 50G.

Unless they go really different with a larger screen, touchscreen, something more like a Nintendo DS or iPhone in quality but with a much larger screen, it may be you'd run calculator software of some sort on such a device in the future instead of an actual dedicated calculator.

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