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Re: Hands-On with the HP Prime: Full Review
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2013, 03:59:07 pm »
Historically, the HP-49 CAS used to shine at several things that the TI-68k series' CAS sucked at (see ti89vshp49.pdf). The Nspire's CAS has marginally improved over the TI-68k series' CAS... several limitations have been fixed, but many bugs have been added over the past two years.
TI displays more concern for trying to lock down the Nspire than for trying to have it produce correct results.
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Re: Hands-On with the HP Prime: Full Review
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2013, 05:36:22 pm »
Yeah, I remember some people in the past over here (although one was just a plain HP fanboy who thought HP calcs were perfect in every way, even community size) have mentionned that the 49g series were much better, CAS-wise, although some stuff were better on the Nspire. The issue with HP calcs is that some people found them too hard to use because of SysRPL and RPN, which is probably why HP has expanded the newer models so that RPN use isn't required and the language is closer to Ti/Casio BASIC.

The major issue with the 49g itself, though, was the keypad. IIRC, keys were overly clunky and the keypad would eventually break. The 50g supposedly fixed that, though. On the other hand, I find Casio PRIZM and CP400 keys to be too soft.
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