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« on: May 31, 2007, 11:23:00 am »
OMG!

I just got home from school and my calculator is missing!  :grr:mad.gif:flame:tresfache.gif  I am so angry and worried. I think it might be stolen because I'm pretty sure I didn't leave it in any classroom. I hope the latter is true because I had lots of stuff on it that I cannot replace. :(sad.gif

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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 11:45:00 am »
wow that sucks! how much name ID did you have on it? i doubt that if someone stole it  then they will give it back anyway, but i know sometimes my friends leave thier calcs in the classroom and i find them and return them. so perhaps all is not lost.  

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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2007, 11:51:00 am »
I had my name on the back. I hope I only forgot it in the classroom.

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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2007, 12:29:00 pm »
I lost my 89t a couple times. One time I even left it on the city bus! Fortunately, I got it back the next day - made a call to their lost and found center, woot!  

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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2007, 03:08:00 pm »
Heh, some of the plastic on my calculator melted and then reformed (don't ask...) so it is instantly recognizable.

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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2007, 03:50:00 am »
got it back yet?

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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2007, 08:02:00 am »
wow that sucks, i hope you get it back

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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2007, 10:54:00 am »
Nope. I don't think I will get it back. :(sad.gif

And my parents refuse to buy me a new one, but maybe that will change later.

EDIT: If I do get a calculator, I think I will get a HP50g.

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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2007, 04:03:00 am »
HP... bring him to the iron maidon!!!

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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2007, 05:18:00 am »
Actually, that HP 50g is pretty kickass. Expensive, yes, but kickass nonetheless. ;)wink.gif

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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2007, 06:45:00 am »
Hmmm, the only three problems I see with it are:
1) Battery life is 2 months
2) It's a tad bit too expensive
3) Where will you find an HP calculator community?

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« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2007, 08:21:00 am »
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HP... bring him to the iron maidon!!!


Lol, don't hate.

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Actually, that HP 50g is pretty kickass. Expensive, yes, but kickass nonetheless.


Thanks. It's not too expensive (like $200 or something like that).

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1) Battery life is 2 months


Yes, it is short, but I will be using rechargables so it won't be too much of a problem. Plus, I will only use it for math. (I won't game on it because I can't imagine gaming without an 89 - especially the higher resolution and screen size.)

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2) It's a tad bit too expensive


$150 (HP) compared to $140 (89) isn't too much of a price gap ;)wink.gif. I will also be buying an SD card for the calculator so another $5-$20 (probably $10) won't hurt too much (I still have to get parental approval :rolleyes:rolleyes.gif )

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3) Where will you find an HP calculator community?

I guess this is a major problem. Let's see, nobody helped me learn how to use my 83 (I didn't even know about calculator communities back then  :oops:embarassed.gif ). Nobody taught me how to use my 89 (everything I learned was through experimentation; I knew about online communities, but most people had a 83 anyways). And nobody will teach me how to use a HP 50g, but will it really make a difference? Not really. I will pick it up during this summer. Since I will only be using it for math, I won't need much help since a lot of the math functions are already built in (unlike an 89 where I would have to download stuff). HP lacks a large community but there is http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/topics though I don't see myself joing it in the near future.

So will I be here after this? I'm not even sure. I'm seriously considering an HP 50g unless someone can convince me otherwise.

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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2007, 08:30:00 am »
When I mean a community, I mean a programming community. I have also seen one of my friends use one of them before, and even if it does have a 75mhz processor, it graphs slower than the 89 Titanium AND it doesn't have as many graphing/plotting functions (Box-and-Whisker, Scatter, etc.). I also looked up the button layout and it is...not so user-friendly, to put it in a nice way (what the hell do the arrows mean?!):
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The 89 Titanium is also easier to program than the HP 50g and has 700 kB more Flash memory. Oh yeah, not to mention the funky screen resolution, which is 131x80 (why 131?)

More info http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1306088.

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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2007, 08:34:00 am »
Actually I think it's only $150 or something these days. Check HP's site. They are a little less noob-friendly, but after you get used to RPN you'll find it's a lot faster to enter fancy calculations that way.

EDIT: oh I see you have it as $150 there too. I didn't read far enough lolz, only saw your $200 price.

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« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2007, 08:53:00 am »
Graywolf, it was a reference to an old movie... a bad one really (reference, movie was great)...