Just went up in price on Amazon.
What gives? Are they just selling the last few stock?
>>54970019
>not sticking a display to your raspberry pi
>>54970019
It's inflation anon. (((TI))) has to make their money too...
I told you to buy one while they were still cheap.
They've been discontinued since 2015 and they're the last HP Saturn platform calculators that will ever be made.
Even the HP Prime series can't hold a candle to the 49 series.
>tfw bought one just in time
>>54970060
Whats worse about the prime other than it being 130 bucks?
It's 65 now should I still get one to replace my nspire in engineering school?
>>54970463
Designed for EDUCASHUN and not engineering.
There's even a test mode to disable all the fancy features along with a blinker at the top to tell your proctor that your TEST MODE is still on.
>>54970626
I'm in university, that's education.
The 50g can't even really do triple integral calculation well while the prime would ace it. Why should I pick 50g?
>>54970626
Rig up an LED with a coin cell battery in the case so they can see the pretty light. Then cheat your ass off.
>>54970037
How does TI make more money from this?
>>54970653
Universities aren't about education
They are primarily about exploring new ideas
>>54970019
It's $65. What was the price before?
>>54971071
$50
>>54970019
>HP
>not the Casio fx-9860GII
>>54972380
But muh rpn.
50g is cheaper too, why do I choose this?
>>54972380
>Casio
>ever
Even the TI babbies are better than you.
>>54970019
>Just went up in price on Amazon.
Amazon prices are cyclical, they'll come back down in a few weeks
>>54972420
they're also discontinued
>>54972432
Do you think it will keep increasing then
>>54972467
I wouldn't doubt it. Check out 15C and 16C prices
>>54972467
Eventually yes.
I don't know when tho.
For all we know, they might have a whole warehouse full of hp50g's and they sell at a rate of 3 a month.
When they do finally sell out, they will skyrocket in price, easily more than $150, just like the hp 48 and hp 49 series on ebay.
>>54972497
https://www.amazon.com/HP-15C-Limited-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B005EIG3MW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465368209&sr=8-1&keywords=15c+hp
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 750 DOLLARS
https://www.amazon.com/HP-F2215AA-ABA-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B000TDRHG8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1465368250&sr=8-3&keywords=hp+16c
This could be good however
I wonder who could be behind this...
Whats wrong with Casio calculators?
>>54973071
no rpn
no keystroke programming
no programmability at all
they're not even manufactured by casio anymore
>>54970033
Clearly a display is not enough, you need a good keyboard and case too. Also these calcs run small batteries for years. Otherwise it's a good project idea though and it could be clearly really powerful.
>>54970019
How is the price of calculators justified ? It's the same design and software as 30 years ago. A smartphone is cheaper than this.
What the fuck.
>>54973657
having physical buttons is nice
also, you can buy a decent calculator for $8, it'll last you a long time and never run out of batteries.
>>54973657
>It's the same design and software as 30 years ago
That's a TI thing, not an every brand thing.
>>54973684
to be fair, the last substantial update to the calculator in the OP was in 1990.
Everything since then has been a cosmetic upgrade.
>some retard lost their TI-89 Titanium when I was a freshman
>still using it to this day
based free calculator
>>54973716
That's blatantly false. SD cards and USB ports definitely weren't a thing in 1990.
>>54970019
>microSD storage
>ARM9 core
The only thing stopping this running Linux is the 512KiB RAM, right?
>>54973737
the interface hasn't changed at all
>>54973766
It doesn't need to be 100% different, point is it's not the same calculator for the same price from 20 years ago like the bullshit TI pulls
I just use a TI-86 on an emulator on my phone.
