First Impressions

[Boo]

Bought a HP Prime today from Officeworks (Tasmania, Australia).
Bottom shelf, no price tags, other calcs just thrown on top. You really had to know what you were looking for, because these are not being promoted at all.
First impressions are not so good. The display is awful; it looks interlaced to me... I see a sort of shimmering, and everything is blurry. I guess I'm spoiled by sharp iPhone screens, but this really looks low-cost and hard on the eyes to me. Worse still, if I place the machine on the desk for use, I can't read the display. The viewing angle is very small, and I have to cradle in one hand to tilt display towards me before it becomes useable. So, only a 2/5 for me on the display.
The touch-screen part of it, though, is fantastic. Very responsive and accurate. 5/5 for that.
The machine is a bit light and cheap-feeling in the hands -- wish it were more substantial and heavy. It just doesn't feel like the old-style HP quality, and was particularly disappointed with the god-awful bubble type packaging. So these two -- look and feel -- only a 3/5. I realise HP is trying to target cheap educational use and hence the above apply. Overall, first impressions then, 3/5. I remember when I bought my HP41C back in 1983 or so, and I was awestruck by the quality and sophistication of that machine. This one is more or less a "meh".
I have a professional games programming background and I bought this machine as a toy/plaything, really, with a view to doing a bit of graphics fun to see how capable it is in that area. It seems a capable beast in terms of programming and speed, so hopefully I will grow to like it a bit more. Right now, I probably wouldn't spend the $ on it, given another chance.