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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Spyro543 on June 03, 2011, 08:33:26 pm
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I was all w00t when I saw you could buy a CX now: link yay (http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/840966/Texas-Instruments-TI-Nspire-CX-Graphing/&op=000ESPJ)
I have a few questions, numbered so I can easily match up q's and a's:
1. Can the CX do percents?
2. Does it use a computer-like UI, just like the the standard Nspire?
3. Does it have a computer mouse, like older Nspires?
4. How much storage and RAM is available to use?
5. What can we program on it?
6. Can it do 3D graphing?
7. How many colors are available?
8. How many can we use in programming?
9. How fast and powerful is it?
10. How long does the rechargeable battery last?
11. The battery is built-in, right?
12. Can we charge it through the computer?
13. How accurate is the touchpad?
14. Can you type on it?
15. Why are there so few buttons? Are all of the functions accessible through menus?
16. Any sound capabilities?
17. What ports does it have? What link capabilities does it have?
Thanks in advance! ;D
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Answers
1isn't that the same as percents which it can definitely do
2yeah interface is almost identical i think
3yeah
I belive ~100mb storage and 28mb RAM
5currently only Nlua and crappy TI-Basic. We expect a release of ndless to be possible
6yes its awesome
7its 16bit
8only15bit with programming
9its pretty good just locked up
10the rechargeable battery has problems(at least in regular)
11you can use 4 AAA's or a rechargeable battery(sold seperately)
12no it has to be plugged in to an outlet
13 its pretty accurate in my experience
14 theres a keyboard
15Everything is hidden in menus
16 not yet since no ndless
17calc-to-calc wireless and calc-to-comp
I hope this is helpful
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Yes, very helpful. Thank you.
I know there's a keyboard, what I meant by question 14 was can I type as in a text editor? I know in the older Nspires you could type in a text editor
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Theres an ndless text editor but other than that you only have the notes TI document type to type in
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That's enough. All I want to do is type in stuff in my calc and save it. TI notes program will come in handy.
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No real text editing though. I hope we get ndless working soon so someone can get a good text editro set up
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Oh so I can't type in stuff, save it, then retrieve it later?
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well its save in a tns so you need the computer software/emulator to open it on comp then you have to copy pate it out of their to put it in a document on comp
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Hm, so I type stuff in the TI notes program, which saves it in a TNS. TI notes can't open this file, so I can't edit it on-calc. I can only view it again on comp. Right?
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once you save it you can edit it oncalc fine. you can view and edit it on comp its just some extra work to get it into a common file that others use like txt, doc, or odt
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In comment to that Office Depot link... $159.99??!??!?!!? O.O
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Thats what TI told me also. The CX's are fuckin expensive
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I was sure it was $145 or $149 on launch. Darn... now imagine how much it will cost over here. X.x
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according to TI OfficeDepot is the only internet store to sell the CX
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Ok, thanks for the help everyone! ;D It really helped!
(And I'm glad the notes program can write, save, and open and edit! It will come in handy)
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It is useful i just prefer more powerful editors. I've used it to write things up many times
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Yeah, it's currently impossible for third-party software to edit TNS files that OS 3.0.x (which is provided on the CX) can understand. Third-party software can only read and write clear-binary documents suitable for OS 1.1, understood by OS 1.2-2.1 but not by 3.0.x.
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Well now that I found out about TI's Lua -> TNS scripting tool, I want a CX even more!
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yeah thats them now letting us program(at least for now)
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Since this relates to the CX,
I was wondering if someone with a CX would be allowed to pry open the device to report the internals to us. I've heard that some people arn't allowed to open it, right?
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yeah you have to have bought it the ones TI gave out you aren't allowed to take apart
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yeah you have to have bought it the ones TI gave out you aren't allowed to take apart
do they come by your house to check? Or do they stalk you online? It's okay if you can't answer. (NDA. :P)
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I can answer I never got them. I bet they just ask for check ups on them or something especially for some members of the community who like taking things apart(like me)
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Chances are that Datamath will post pictures when the CX calcs are publicly sold. They already received prototypes in March or April, but they had to sign a NDA that prohibited taking the prototypes apart...
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when the CX calcs are publicly sold
They're already being sold...
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Does the CX use the same processor used by the original Nspire? Including processing speed?
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Not to be a party crasher, but have you also considered buying a fx CG-10/20 Prizm? It doesn't have Lua, but it has C (which is actually now pretty intuitive to program in with the fixed GCC package) and SH4 assembly (though Qwerty says you essentially need to write in SH3 assembly, since the SH4 version is pretty watered down). It has less memory, but we can have more access over it than we do with the CX. The CX has support for 15 bit color, but the prizm has support for up to 16 bit in C/ASM and is faster to render things with. The processor for the prizm is much slower and the OS even slows it down further, but C on the Prizm compared to Lua on the highly faster CX is much, much faster. Math on the Prizm may not be as advanced as on the CX, but most schools won't even allow you to have a CAS version anyways, and it'll be easier to expand upon the Prizm's math capabilities easier with more control over how things work.
Just a few things in case you haven't really considered the Prizm as well ;)
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/me processes the data above
A Prizm would be cool, but I would still want a CX.