HP Prime

[gbh]

I have no desire to get in the middle of an argument about the HP50 manual, which I've never seen.

Despite the frustrations of the HP Prime, I'll stay with HP because of RPN.

But, I simply don't understand why HP doesn't provide a comprehensive manual for the Prime. A simple PDF available on-line would be adequate.

Having had the Prime for a couple of weeks now, my major frustrations are the lack of integration between Home (with RPN) and CAS, and the inadequate manual. I also find a lot of lesser problems that I assume will be fixed eventually. A minor annoyance is the hard-to-see pale orange color use for the alpha key labels (unfortunately this won't be fixed by a firmware update).

One problem is just weird: how can a maker of scientific calculators put out something that expresses 0.1234 as .1234, omitting the universally used initial zero?!

To be fair, good to excellent features of the Prime include the PPL, the CAS system (for symbolic math), great display and touchscreen, impressive set of apps, fine keyboard, and rechargeable battery (a biggie to me).