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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Spyro543 on May 08, 2011, 06:27:27 pm
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Alright I've been looking at the Nspire Clickpad and I have a question.
The Non-CAS is $159 :o
The CAS is $63 :w00t:
Does the CAS have less features then the Non-CAS?
If not, why doesn't it cost as much as the Non-CAS?
Sources
CAS http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-NSCAS-PWB-1L1/dp/B000QSX9EK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1304892680&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-NSCAS-PWB-1L1/dp/B000QSX9EK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1304892680&sr=1-3)
Non-CAS http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-NSpire-Handheld-Calculator/dp/B000QSZD44/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1304819359&sr=1-4 (http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-NSpire-Handheld-Calculator/dp/B000QSZD44/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1304819359&sr=1-4)
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As far as I know, CAS's, mathwise, can do everything a nonCAS can and more. Programming wise, it's more limited. However this doesn't explain why it's cheaper, since most of them don't care about programming...
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So the CAS would be a bad choice?
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If you want to be Ndless compatible, probably.
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I'm not concerned about Ndless.
All I'm concerned about is some simple programming and to play games and try and run programs.
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well, Both Nspire's programming is crippled with no input or getkey. So none of the games will be very good except ASM ones ones which are only playable trough Ndless.
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No input? At all? No INPUT? So that makes even math programs impossible to create!
I still want one.
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you can create functions, so you set up the arguments, but definitely no really good games
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Like I asked on IRC, is the MLC available for this version of Nspire?
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The Nspire CAS OS doesn't have the (incomplete) TI-84+ emulator provided by the non-CAS OS - but it has a CAS :)
Ndless supports the non-CAS OS and the CAS OS equally well.
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The Nspire CAS OS doesn't have the (incomplete) TI-84+ emulator provided by the non-CAS OS - but it has a CAS :)
Ndless supports the non-CAS OS and the CAS OS equally well.
Also note that the CX non-CAS version doesn't have the 84+ emu.
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So I will be considering this CAS version. Thanks for everyone's help! And if Ndless is compatible with the CAS that's awesome
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Why not just get the regular and load CAs on it if you need it. They have OSLauncher and a tutorial on how to do it.
I'm thinking about doing thta to mine so I can do some of the math it lets me do.
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Why not just get the regular and load CAs on it if you need it. They have OSLauncher and a tutorial on how to do it.
I'm thinking about doing thta to mine so I can do some of the math it lets me do.
Why not get a CAS (which is cheaper) and run the 84+ emu on it using OSLauncher?
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The reason I'm getting the CAS is becuase its cheaper.
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Make sure it's not a Nspire CAS+ (prototype), though.
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When I look the CAS is more expensive. I know the CAS prototypes are less expensive but why would you want one of those?
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Yeah normally the CAS is supposed to be more expensive. Remember, however, that there could be a catch: Maybe it's a CAS+ or one of the prototypes that tries to pass itself as a commercial model, which can't use commercial OS upgrades.
Also the CAS is banned from some math tests in North America.
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The CAS is banned and the PTT mode disables OSLauncher so there is no way to get a CAS clac into a test if the people check your calc and do what they're supposed to.
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Well aparently there's a Nspire touchpad that's $108.
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One thing to know is that according to Touchpad models owners, the touchpad is fairly imprecise, and can trigger spurious clicks.
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On the CX, I noticed there seemed to be some sort of imprecision too from Yunhua98 video. It seems the video is lagging, but in fact it isn't, but at one point you see the cursor moves accross the screen at like 4-5 frames per second.
Also I believe certain Ndless games won't work on Touchpad models, but maybe that was fixed.
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Programs should be rebuilt with a recent version of Ndless 2.0 to work on Touchpad models, but I don't know the current state of the different TI-Nspire programs.
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Ah ok. I think one problem in particular was gbc4nspire. I think it was rebuilt for Ndless 2.0, but this version was never included on ticalc.org nor Omni downloads section so it can be hard to find.
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Yes, this one isn't compatible yet.
I was working on a disassembler producing assembly files that can be directly rebuilt with GCC, to be able to maintain gbc4nspire without its original source code, but didn't have time to finish it.
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Aah ok, sorry to hear :(