TI is cheater on manuals.

Hardware wise, HP-49G/50G are FAR better than TI calcs. They both have a 203 MHz ARM processor, underclocked to much lower speed to save on battery. However, their full speed can be activated through ASM language. The problem with these calcs is that apparently they're not easy to use and the community is quasi nonexistent. As for Casio, there's a model with color screen, but no ASM support and discontinued (slower BASIC too) and the Casio FX-9860G, which is roughly the same speed (or close) as the 83+, has no Asm(/Send(9 command to run ASM libs in BASIC games so no way to run archived programs. Hardware-wise it's roughtly the same as a SE calc I think. The Casio community is bigger than the HP community, but still smaller than TI community (altough its activity didn't decrease as fast as the TI and HP community in 2006-08). Casios are used a lot because they're much cheaper than TI calcs, while still being able to do math programs and graphing students need.

Btw, I kinda like the Casio FX-9860G in some ways, though. The equivalent on Output( on it, despite not word-wrapping like on TI, is much faster than on the 83+. If you run Kucalc's add-on that sets the CPU speed to maximum (by default, the calc runs at around 10-12 MHz I think, instead of close to 16), the Output function gets so incredibly fast that even when displaying 3 lines of text with 3 output functions through a loop, I got close-to-flickerless grayscale

Btw, I kinda like the Casio FX-9860G in some ways, though. The equivalent on Output( on it, despite not word-wrapping like on TI, is much faster than on the 83+. If you run Kucalc's add-on that sets the CPU speed to maximum (by default, the calc runs at around 10-12 MHz I think, instead of close to 16), the Output function gets so incredibly fast that even when displaying 3 lines of text with 3 output functions through a loop, I got close-to-flickerless grayscale

Quote from: Galandros on November 16, 2009, 04:41:05 am

200 MHz, cool. But in full speed batteries last how many hours?

i would just guess not very long