Supercalculators

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. :/

>>7
Nah, it's just that noone's made anything yet that's more powerful than a HP 50 but just as convenient to use.  You can't carry a netbook around with you very conveniently, and anything smaller doesn't presently have the power to run any decent math software.

>>6

It would be easy to make something like that, I'm sure, but I just don't think the market for $300 calculators that are illegal as hell on the SAT or exams is out there.  Plus, once you get that high price-wise, you might as well just go a little further and buy a laptoop/netbook. 

Soon enough, a Pocket PC-type thing will come out that's powerful enough to run proper Windows programs, and at that point the only thing keeping the calculator makers alive will be the fact that it's illegal on the SAT's.

Another thing, to make something with the power of Mathematica, say, you'll need to a proper software package, which isn't so easy to write.  You could just license Mathematica and adapt their software to a new platform, but that could probably jack up the price of it $50 right there.