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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 2009-07-04 0:22

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Both related, but yeah, I was surprised when I went back to school a couple years ago and got into researching graphing calcs at (a) the low proc speed on high end models when there are so many awesome modern chips available and (b) the lack of really quality graphing calc software for standard PCs.

We've got to be on the edge, right, of someone dropping an atom processor into a handheld dedicated to calculation. A Sage handheld, maybe, running under a wee linux environment? A few ports for taking in data, too, make it really nice. I'd probably drop $300 on that as quick as on a netbook if it were a reliable device, and if the battery time was respectable. (~6-8 hours, cradle rechargeable.)

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