http://nttv.unt.edu/content/ti-nspire (http://nttv.unt.edu/content/ti-nspire)
Hmm, I wonder why they start an Nspire video with downloading the 83+ SDK... They clearly have no idea of what they're talking about. And why are the students browsing Facebook?
Whats the big deal with the CX for education anyway? Math and science don't need a color screen or the ability to load photos. The gameboy emulator, on the other hand....I think it's to make these calcs more attracting to the new generation of students that are used to every other screen having colors. Personally I find my PRIZM screen much easier to read than my Casio FX-9860G/TI-83+ screen.
Nice big troll above here, mikehill2003...
Nintendo doesn't sell overpriced products. When the DS came out it was about $200 cheaper than the PSP here and the PSP remained above $200 for years until the PSPGo came out. Their Wii costed $279.99 on launch, while the 360 and PS3 costed about $700. Yes, Nintendo consoles are less powerful, but it's totally untrue that their stuff is overpriced. I think that status would go more for other console makers, especially Sony. TI, on the other hand, sells overpriced hardware.
Also, if you haven't noticed, the rest of the community wants more powerful hardware. Take a look at the interest for the Casio Prizm color calc: TI programmers bought one, something that would never have occured with their previous products, because to everyone, TI was better than Casio. I seriously don't understand why you are so much against a calc with a color screen when you use one mostly for programming and gaming, something where colors are more than welcome. That said, I agree that their products are locked down so much.
You should stop trying to start fights.It was never my intent to start a fight.
I don't think that's a sensible comparison to make.
The only time price/computing power ratio is a good metric to use when deciding what to buy is if you're putting together a supercomputing cluster.
For game systems, the value you get is not linear with CPU power or memoryNo, but the visual quality of many games is. Crysis 2 would be an excellent example of this, as would Black Ops. For some people, that's all that matters.
- if you buy ten XBoxes, you have ten times the computing power, but can you really have ten times the fun with them?Of course not. This list is here only to show that Nintendo uses crappy hardware. Many people don't care about playing Crysis, they'd rather play Bejeweled. For them, the Wii might be the best console, even though in terms of value for hardware, it is lame. I don't look down on people who only play certain games, I just wish Nintendo would use modern hardware instead of being cheap.
I think the main issue is offer/demand. Nintendo has an history of selling their consoles cheaper on launch. I remember the N64 for example. However, since they become very popular their price won't drop as fast. I remember the 360 was like $300 cheaper 3 years after launch, and today the Wii only dropped by about $60 over here (compared to the launch price).Yes, the price of the 360 has changed a lot relative to the prices of other consoles.
Maybe Nintendo has cheaper hardware for the price ratio, but it doesn't mean their consoles are bad. They're just for a different group of people.Which is pretty much what I said in my previous post. Only problem is that's not a very good excuse to use relatively crappy components to make more money.
However, something seems wrong with your image above: Where I live the 360 costed about $700 on launch, not $300. Was it really this cheap in USA when it came out? O.OOnly if you could find one.
I think TI is much more worse than Nintendo on the hardware/ratio point, and on the TI-Nspire, less freedom.Yes, TI has worse price/value ratios than Nintendo, but the Wii and DS are far more locked down then the Nspire. There is no Wii-BASIC or anything like it.
Also personally as much as I wish the CX screen was a lot larger, I would rather have it so it's small enough to allow the calc to fit in a pocket. I feel the TI-Nspire is too huge, compared to the Prizm.This is simply a matter of personal preference, there isn't anything to discuss here.
Also, if the resolution was larger I would surely hope the text is still readable. If they decided to use a 720x480 LCD, but the entire text was 8 px fonts, it would hurt our eyes. I already find the text small enough on the Nspire Clickpad and the TI-89T.Fortunately, this would not be an issue. The iPhone 4's display has a very high pixel density, and yet it is one of the clearest and easiest to read displays in use. The problem you're referring to is merely a font size issue. I believe that is somewhat adjustable on the Nspire.
Anyway I guess everyone got their opinions, but in your earlier comment, mikehill2003, it sounded like you were totally against a color screen and the way the rest was worded it seemed like you were against calc dev and thought they were reserved only for math.No, I think a color screen is a great thing, but TI uses it as a shield against the Nspire's other problems (such as the weak CPU). As in "Look, our new TI-Nspire CX has a shiny color screen!" "I see. Does it use a modern 800Mhz CPU yet?" "Look, the ability to draw graphs onto images will revolutionize teaching!"
We need to be careful about how we word stuff and also some people are more sensitive so if they arrive with a CX or a Prizm and you go tell them this calc is worthless because of the hardware they might think you are telling them they're worthless.I agree, but don't consider any decent calculator worthless, much less its owner.
And one thing to remember is that Omnimaga doesn't welcome fanboyism towards consoles, OSes, browsers, languages, etc, so we have to be careful to make sure what we say doesn't sound like it comes from a fanboy.Don't worry, I'm not really a fanboy of any kind. I care far more about an individual product's worth on its own then the company or philosophy that led to its development. In other words, I'd gladly sell my iPod if someone made a faster and cheaper Android alternate.
I think Nintendo took the advantage that most of their games were more oriented for kid-like games that didN't require good graphics as much and spent most of their time trying to find an innovative way to entertain people, and the hardware suffered.That is quite likely, however the other possibility is that it is far cheaper to use older, slower components, thus increasing net profit.
Once new systems comes out the Wii will fall behind pretty quick in sales, though, and now they compete vs the Kinect and PS Move.I'm sure they are working on a motion sensing peripheral right now.
And yeah fonts are adjustable on the Nspire. I just mean that if TI decides to use a higher res screen, they'll need to make sure to do like Casio and adjust text size in consequence.If they ever choose to use a high quality, high resolution screen I'm sure they would make the fonts readable. Such an event is exceedingly unlikely, given TI's cheap habits, because high quality screens are very expensive.
On the topic of resolution, I'm pretty sure I read on TI's site that the screen is still 320x240 pixels. Understandable, because otherwise it would be pretty hard to make the OS compatible with both old and new models if the resolution was different.
Well, at least the screen's response time is better.TI isn't exactly known for writing optimized code. But aside from that, the iPhone has a 3D graphics processor. It's not really fair to compare that to a software renderer.
It looks like the CX is still underpowered, as there is still lag in the menus. Also, the 3d graphing resolution and speed was kinda lame. I really hope the CX2 will have at least a 500Mhz ARM9 CPU... See video below for what even a crappy first-gen iPhone can do: