Texas Instruments vs. Casio

TI84SE · Post by **TI84SE** » Thu 19 May, 2005 8:33 pm

I don't understand a word.

Here's what I've learned from this topic:

There are three kinds of calculators - Texas Instruments, Casio, HP

HP > TI = Casio

HP - 200 MHz? (whatever that means)
TI - 12-15 MHz (less than 200, so that means worse, right?)
Casio - AFX...and umm CAS?

I'm not even gonna try to learn all this. I'll just stick with my 1337 noob BASIC programming.

Well...so which one is generally better? From what I've heard it seems to be HP. I had never even heard of HP calculators before this. I don't like the Casio as much, mainly due to it's looks.

~TI84SE

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 20 May, 2005 11:33 am

Dude, it's a calculator.... who CARES what it looks like?!

pacHa · Post by **pacHa** » Fri 20 May, 2005 5:16 pm

TI84SE wrote:re's what I've learned from this topic:

There are three kinds of calculators - Texas Instruments, Casio, HP

HP > TI = Casio

Well, you cannot say such a thing. Have your own opinion !

HP - 200 MHz? (whatever that means)
TI - 12-15 MHz (less than 200, so that means worse, right?)
Casio - AFX...and umm CAS?

I've said I thought newers HPs had a slown down 200MHz ARM cpu. I'm not sure about this, but I know it runs at 75MHz, but it has to emulate a saturn cpu, for which the OS was written (again, iirc), so it's slower. Games side, it has a great potential though (by using directly the ARM)
Also, only 68k -based calcs are >10MHz. Smaller TIs are slower. (4-6 MHz iirc)

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Fri 20 May, 2005 5:43 pm

go dysfunction!!! why do people hate 84's so much?

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Fri 20 May, 2005 8:37 pm

The 83+SE/84+/84+SE run at either 6MHz or 15MHz, depending on port settings.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 20 May, 2005 9:38 pm

dysfunction wrote:Dude, it's a calculator.... who CARES what it looks like?!

Look at the success of the iPod, when the vast majority of Creative/Archos/iRiver DAP units are technically superior...

TI84SE · Post by **TI84SE** » Sat 21 May, 2005 7:28 pm

dysfunction wrote:Dude, it's a calculator.... who CARES what it looks like?!

Looks are everything. At least at my neighborhood/school/church/community/state/region/country/AMERICA'S SOCIETY.

I have an Ipod Mini! I got ripped off though...got it for $400 at Christmas (with 2-year warranty) now they are only $249...

I get ripped off on everything. My computer was like $3500 now it's only $2700.

But WHO CARES? I'M LOADED! (not really, just my parents

)

~TI84SE

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Sat 21 May, 2005 7:32 pm

..everything goes down in price after it's been out a while. That's how the economy works. If that weren't the case, a crappy (now) 80486 computer would still cost $3000 with its 500MB hard drive and no optical drive...

mnc2fan · Post by **mnc2fan** » Mon 23 May, 2005 3:38 pm

What would CAS allow the 83+ to do with overall funtionallity?

With the HP ARM actually a 200 Mhz proc, being run at 75 Mhz running a emulation of the old HP calc OS, it if was running at full speed you could have greater than 64 grey scale?!

I can't remember how much mem it has.

CrimsonCasio · Post by **CrimsonCasio** » Thu 26 May, 2005 2:45 am

dysfunction wrote:I believe the SATs allow the 89 now because they realized that apps and assembly programs allow the 83+ to do many of the math functions for which they had barred the 89, and as they couldn't really bar the 83, they had to allow the 89.

nonono... sat's are diffrent, they allow CAS, but there's no math on there a CAS would really make a diffrence with. the ACT does not allow CAS but actually has math that might be helpfull to have a CAS with.

as for looks, have you seen the classpad? *drool*

btw, here's how the CAS stats stack up according to the experts:

PC > Classpad > Hp49g+ > Ti89 > AFX > CFX 9900gb (casio)

however, the classpad has a few bugs to work out in order for its CAS to work perfectly, so its preaty much tied in terms of features with the HP atm, though it is much faster unless you use a matrix (stupid matrix bug... 5 minutes per opperation)... the classpad is unfortunatly somewhat incompleat, though oooh so powerfull. and the AFX has is nearly perfect in terms of gaming (btw, the guy that is now working on MLCafx is the guy that came up with the 64 greys method)