HP Prime FW for 2023?

[parisse]

(01-15-2023 12:36 AM)tppytel Wrote:  

(01-14-2023 08:02 AM)parisse Wrote:  This shows that the educational market is very conservative

Not so much "conservative"... just short on money and time. I was the math department chair in a big city school in the US for many years. We owned hundreds of TI-84's as class sets, teachers knew how to use them, and kids often arrived with them from elementary school. What would Primes or NSpires really add for most classes?

CAS, 3d graphs/geometry, more memory/speed for more advanced computations/programs, that means a calculator that is still useful *after you leave highschool*. You can have all that if you install KhiCAS on a ndless-able TI Nspire CX/CX2 (even non CAS), Casio FXCG50 and it's available on the HP Prime. The Casio is significantly less expensive than the ti84 (80$ vs 107$ on amazon.com) with a more powerful hardware (8Mo of RAM, 32M of storage with 16M available to the user). If you really think about not-wealthy families, then introducing more competition *is* very important. For comparison, the French model equivalent to the TI84 is sold at 87 euros currently (https://www.amazon.fr/Texas-Instruments-...6922?psc=1) and 80 euros during back to school, this price includes VAT. The reason for the price difference is that the French calculator market is much more competetive.
I know switching is not easy, especially in the educational market (that's why I said it's conservative), but it's possible if there is enough goodwill to do. As I said, Numworks could gain one third of the graphing marketshare in France in 5 years. I don't support Numworks by the way, since they locked their calculator, Casio is currently the most open to third-party development.