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Title: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 12:21:51 am
Our fellow forum member JosJuice have reported about changes on Texas Instruments' calculator comparison chart on their website, located in the Student Zone. It appears that their entire graphing calculator line, from the TI-83 Plus to the TI-Nspire, passing by the TI-89 Titanium, is being redesigned, and that even the technical specifications such as RAM and Archive will change, such as the TI-Nspire CX dropping from 100 MB of RAM to 20.

As you can see below or directly on their website (http://education.ti.com/studentzone/StudentZoneUS/calculatorzone/charts.html) (as of tonight), the changes are very drastic!

(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=10046.0;attach=9124;image)

It definitively seems that they are trying to improve their offer for customers, so that their various calculators satisfy student and teacher's needs even more. A TI-84 Plus Silver Edition with 20 MB of RAM and 16 MB of archive, assuming it still uses the same processor despite this complete re-design, definitively sounds interesting! Hopefully we hear more about those changes soon!

Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 12:33:58 am
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God damn man, you fucked your shit up
They really confused the models there...

But this is interesting.
If TI is changing their marketing, it could mean a shift in where they want to take the company,
Maybe a new line of calculators ?
Maybe more love for the calc development community :)?

All of the above is just dreams, they probably just got bored and redid a small part of their website.

/speculations

Not that I actually now which is the 83/84/89, but:
(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5931/calccomparisonchart.png)
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: willrandship on August 21, 2011, 12:39:18 am
I do want an 84+ with 20MB of ram :D
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Juju on August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am
Hahaha interesting :P

Spoiler For Spoiler:
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 12:49:04 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 12:52:19 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

Damnit!
Anyway, how long has that page really been like this ?
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 12:55:51 am
JosJuice noticed it yersterday and posted about it in this thread: http://ourl.ca/12635

But I don't know if it was like that for a long while. Given that the CX was out for a while, I'm starting to wonder if it wasn't like that since its release.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Darl181 on August 21, 2011, 02:26:04 am
Anyone else notice that the CX on the left is the only one labeled correctly?

Actually, that's a CAS looking closely.  Awesomeness.
/me pulls out a TI-83 Titanium CAS with Touchpad

EDIT: and the school bookroom lends out CXes!  Yayy
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Levak on August 21, 2011, 04:01:12 am
IF pictures was the only problem it would be fine ... but the caracteristics are also cheated even if we replace each model to its place...
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: harold on August 21, 2011, 07:20:29 am
Oooh TI, you so funny
Too bad they probably didn't do this on purpose..
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Lionel Debroux on August 21, 2011, 07:32:59 am
Everybody knows that they want their older product lines die as soon as possible... but they didn't _have_ to wrongfully indicate that the 89T does not do 3D graphing, that the TI-68k and TI-Z80 series does not contain preloaded applications, or that the 89T cannot do split screen (not up to 4-way, but 2-way - so they ought to have made this line contain numeric values, if they were honest)...
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Snake X on August 21, 2011, 07:51:46 am
hehe.. glad 2 c some fake news again DJ :P they were always interesting
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 21, 2011, 10:45:37 am
I do want an 84+ with 20MB of ram :D

me too :D
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O

O.O epic fail ti epic fail
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 10:49:35 am
Everybody knows that they want their older product lines die as soon as possible... but they didn't _have_ to wrongfully indicate that the 89T does not do 3D graphing, that the TI-68k and TI-Z80 series does not contain preloaded applications, or that the 89T cannot do split screen (not up to 4-way, but 2-way - so they ought to have made this line contain numeric values, if they were honest)...
>big corporations
>honest
Nope :-\
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: mrmprog on August 21, 2011, 10:58:36 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
What ever happened to the 200? Of all the older calcs, the 89 ti and the 200 are my favorite, though I have neither.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Deep Toaster on August 21, 2011, 11:10:54 am
I wish I did have an Nspire CX CAS :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 10:55:05 pm
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
What ever happened to the 200? Of all the older calcs, the 89 ti and the 200 are my favorite, though I have neither.

I'm unsure. It was just not listed there, but is still listed elsewhere on TI website. It's their most powerful 68K calc, but maybe it doesn't sell as much (the huge size doesn't help) and they aren't bothering to market it anymore.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: calc84maniac on August 21, 2011, 11:18:41 pm
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
What ever happened to the 200? Of all the older calcs, the 89 ti and the 200 are my favorite, though I have neither.

I'm unsure. It was just not listed there, but is still listed elsewhere on TI website. It's their most powerful 68K calc, but maybe it doesn't sell as much (the huge size doesn't help) and they aren't bothering to market it anymore.
They're probably only listing calcs that are allowed in testing.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 11:34:49 pm
Oh maybe. It's the student zone of the american site so I guess that makes sense. :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 22, 2011, 01:00:40 am
I thought they discontinued them?
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: ralphdspam on August 22, 2011, 01:28:39 am
whatisthisidontevenlolwut
o.O
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Juju on August 22, 2011, 02:29:48 am
Yeah the 92 and the V200 has a QWERTY keyboard, so it's not allowed in SAT and such.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2011, 03:10:46 pm
It looks like they finally fixed their stuff, at last! :P

http://education.ti.com/studentzone/StudentZoneUS/calculatorzone/charts.html

THey did it today, because yesterday I checked and it was still screwed up.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Kjelddy on August 24, 2011, 03:13:05 pm
it's still screwed up by me. the picture of the CX and the CX CAS are mixed up :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Monkeyanator on August 24, 2011, 03:17:42 pm
Where Do you get started on dev for calculators? I have exp. with iPhone dev, C++ and Actionscript, but how about this? What lang. do you use? How do you build your interfaces?
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: AngelFish on August 24, 2011, 03:21:18 pm
That depends on what calculator you have. If you have an Nspire <3.0, you use C, ASM, or BASIC. For Nspire's >3.0, people generally use Lua or BASIC. If you have an 84+ calculator, you can use C, ASM, BASIC, BBC BASIC, or Axe. For the 68k calcs, there's basically the same selection, except that more people use C. If you happen to own a prizm (not a TI calc...), you can write C, ASM or BASIC, though there is a project in the works to bring Java, Lua, and Brainf*ck to that calculator.

As for interfaces, you generally don't use a whole lot of OO with calculator dev :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: JosJuice on August 24, 2011, 03:54:39 pm
They wrote User Available Memory instead of Memory and listed the 83+ as compatible with the 84+? Man, I'm almost starting to like TI... Now they just need to stop claiming that the Nspires have apps. :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Kjelddy on August 24, 2011, 03:59:37 pm
They wrote User Available Memory instead of Memory and listed the 83+ as compatible with the 84+? Man, I'm almost starting to like TI... Now they just need to stop claiming that the Nspires have apps. :P
It would be really awsome if we had apps for the nspire:P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Yeong on August 24, 2011, 06:58:06 pm
lol....I totally missed this fake news.
At least, it's not scary as last one (OS 2.71)
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Juju on August 24, 2011, 09:45:23 pm
It looks like they finally fixed their stuff, at last! :P

http://education.ti.com/studentzone/StudentZoneUS/calculatorzone/charts.html

THey did it today, because yesterday I checked and it was still screwed up.
Did they saw our news? I wonder how they reacted... :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2011, 11:04:40 pm
By the way welcome to the forums Monkeyanator :D.

Also Idk if TI saw our news article. I bet someone told them, because I am unsure if they check Omni.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Deep Toaster on August 25, 2011, 01:18:44 pm
it's still screwed up by me. the picture of the CX and the CX CAS are mixed up :P
Probably your browser's cache. Shift reload.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Eeems on August 25, 2011, 01:53:50 pm
it's still screwed up by me. the picture of the CX and the CX CAS are mixed up :P
Probably your browser's cache. Shift reload.
*CTRL
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: JustCause on August 25, 2011, 03:32:54 pm
This was pretty impressive. Glad to see TI's completely forgotten about us. :P
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Dingus on September 07, 2011, 07:39:33 am
This chart makes the calculators look like they are all the same size and I don't think they are.  The newer nspire ones look to big to be called portable.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
Post by: Dingus on September 07, 2011, 07:48:26 am
IF pictures was the only problem it would be fine ... but the caracteristics are also cheated even if we replace each model to its place...

You can count on Apple to get it right the first time, Hp to get it right on the third or fourth try and TI to F-up everything that they do.  That is just the way it is.