How many of you prefer the Prime's Base Conversion to the 50g?

[JDW]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Dave.

My thinking is of course focused on the Prime, seeing that the 50g is no longer sold. It's all about the Prime now when it comes to HP calculators. Therefore, I long to see improvements to the Prime in terms of speed and efficiency. Compared to the 50g, 28S or 48GX, the Prime is slower overall, even though it has been shown that the same base conversions and logical operations can be done on the Prime. Some people say the target customer of the Prime is different now than the target customer of the older RPL calculators from HP. But I feel that shouldn't matter when it comes to efficiency of the UI and the speed of getting something done on the calculator.

In a nutshell, I posted what I did to stimulate discussion on this subject so we can see improvements to the Prime. Some things can be improved by user programs in BASIC, but the biggest improvements would come from HP writing dedicated apps to accomplish tasks faster, more efficiently, and in a much easier to understand way for any kind of user, whether they be a casual calculator user, a student or an engineer.