I'm tired of all the gripes...

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

I am not so sure. The HP-Prime (of which I really only know the iPad app and it's little sibling, the 39gii) is the current end result of 45 years of HP calculator evolution. The best calculator company in the world has worked for almost half a century day and night and weekend shifts and came up with the this product. Of course the expectations are high.

Everybody hopes for no less than to get his or her favorite calculator in a modernised, beefed-up version. But of course the Prime cannot deliver that. No product could. The old-time HP afficionados miss the quality of the keyboard, the second-to-none hinged keys with that tactile feedback which is just perfectly right and which never ever break. The RPL community misses RPL. The hardcore RPN fraction misses a lot of RPN functionality. Most of us who are long used to ergonomically designed products miss the ergonomy (e.g. in the hard to read key labels and the constant fiddling with Shift and Alpha keys, non-intuitive menus, display issues, you name it).

Therefore I can understand why poeple are not totally happy with this calculator. And where - if not here - would be the place to express that? Amazon or Google reviews maybe? Certainly not, everybody knows that these are either paid for or written by complete morons who are too lazy or too stupid to read a single manual page. Here we have calculator experts who will find short term solutions and workarounds for the problems and here we know that HP actually listens and contributes. Today's complaints on this forum might actually turn into product improvements in the next release of the Prime. If no one complains nothing will improve.

Regards
Max