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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: apcalc on August 02, 2011, 04:41:39 pm

Title: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: apcalc on August 02, 2011, 04:41:39 pm: While browsing TI's Chinese website earlier today, member northern_snow made in interesting discovery of three Chinese exclusive TI-Nspire models.

First, there are the CX-C and CX-C CAS models, which seem to be very similar to US models with the major exception of supporting the Chinese language and a dictionary, accessible with the key combo ctrl+8.

More interesting, however, is the discovery of the TI-Nspire CM-C model. Besides the obvious differences in appearance (mini USB port on side, curved style, and white color), the CM model also has less memory, 32 MB of RAM as opposed to 64 MB on the normal CX models.

Read more about these new discoveries here (http://ourl.ca/12340)!

(http://pp.a.5d6d.com/userdirs/c/7/fxesms/attachments/month_1108/11080116280262421c3fd7089a.jpg)
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: SirCmpwn on August 02, 2011, 08:23:45 pm: They had better not be about to screw us over like they did with the TI-83/84+ (SE)s
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: calc84maniac on August 02, 2011, 08:24:50 pm: Quote from: SirCmpwn on August 02, 2011, 08:23:45 pm
They had better not be about to screw us over like they did with the TI-83/84+ (SE)s
What do you mean?
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: SirCmpwn on August 02, 2011, 08:25:30 pm: They took off most of the RAM on the later models of the TI-83+ Family (not including the 83+ itself, of course).
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: calc84maniac on August 02, 2011, 08:31:00 pm: Well, 32MB is the same as the normal TI-Nspire. 64MB was only on the CX models to begin with.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: Hot_Dog on August 02, 2011, 08:36:26 pm: Lol, the chinese have less space because they don't use calculators the way they were meant to be used (gaming)

Okay, so maybe they do...
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 02, 2011, 10:43:10 pm: Are those sold cheaper in China? I know China still has poorer areas that are being developed and some companies sells them cheaper stuff to still make money there, so maybe that's why they removed some features?

Nonetheless, this is interesting. I wonder if Ndless will be possible on those...
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: yunhua98 on August 02, 2011, 10:49:54 pm: The reduced memory is probably because of the massive Chinese font.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 02, 2011, 11:07:05 pm: Oh right, maybe. Also I assume it includes both types of chinese (traditional and the other)?
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: JosJuice on August 03, 2011, 03:40:35 am: Quote from: SirCmpwn on August 02, 2011, 08:23:45 pm
They had better not be about to screw us over like they did with the TI-83/84+ (SE)s
I think they already did, considering OS 3.0.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 03, 2011, 03:56:13 am: I think he meant more the hardware changes such as the removal of the extra 80 KB of RAM from newer 84+ calcs, which caused TI-Boy SE, MSD8x (to a certain extent) and Omnicalc RestoreMem function to not work on them. Those were not purposely to make those programs stop working, but rather to reduce productions costs.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: yunhua98 on August 03, 2011, 10:56:04 am: Quote from: yunhua98 on August 02, 2011, 10:49:54 pm
The reduced memory is probably because of the massive Chinese font.

scratch that, OS 3.1 for Nspire CX already has several languages, including traditional and simplified.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 03, 2011, 01:02:22 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on August 02, 2011, 10:43:10 pm
Are those sold cheaper in China? I know China still has poorer areas that are being developed and some companies sells them cheaper stuff to still make money there, so maybe that's why they removed some features?

Nonetheless, this is interesting. I wonder if Ndless will be possible on those...
I'm guessing it's that too, although TI probably still makes a huge profit margin on calcs, they have to introduce a new product if they want to sell for a cheaper price in a certain area, or everyone will buy it for the cheaper price. I also wonder how well these will be adopted in China. I think America is starting to overuse technology in schools (things like smartboards are fine and useful, but using a wireless network of calcs to hand out math problems to a class or to take a vote on something is just overkill.), but I don't know about China.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: cztian on August 08, 2011, 05:23:52 am: Quote from: Hot_Dog on August 02, 2011, 08:36:26 pm
Lol, the chinese have less space because they don't use calculators the way they were meant to be used (gaming)

Okay, so maybe they do...
I am Chinese.But I like gaming on calculators.Because I like ndless.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: brahimmed30 on August 11, 2011, 09:29:18 pm: :w00t:
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/CHINA/productDetail/cn_npsire_cm-c.html
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: Adriweb on August 12, 2011, 12:23:54 am: Here's for you guys :

(http://ti.bank.free.fr/images/tinscmds2.jpg)

(http://ti.bank.free.fr/images/tinscmds.jpg)

(http://ti.bank.free.fr/images/tinscmc.jpg)
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: Jim Bauwens on August 12, 2011, 02:04:58 am: +1 for the beautiful pictures :p
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: critor on August 12, 2011, 05:02:58 am: The pictures are resized (but still clickable for a higher resolution) in the TI-Bank news:

http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1278
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1279
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: yunhua98 on August 12, 2011, 12:06:16 pm: wow, the CM looks really nice.
Title: Re: New Nspire Models: CX-C, CX-C CAS, and CM
Post by: Adriweb on August 12, 2011, 01:56:29 pm: yes, and it's much lighter than the other Nspires