Most underrated programmables

[Joseph_21sv]

(01-28-2015 06:13 PM)Hlib Wrote:  I am sure that the price shan't be the main factor upon purchase of the calculator. For HP-39gii I paid $150, but without regret threw out it in garbage, because it is difficult to call it the CALCULATOR. The HP-48gii like ugly duckling from Anderson's fairy tale appeared in my hands as precious treasure in 2013. He is alive still! In 2000 I bought 2 CASIO FX-2.0 at the price $170 for one device, and they are still absolutely operational. In 15 years there was no one failure in functioning with FX-2.0. SRP-325G (HP-9G) which I bought for $60, works smoothly 9 years already. We don't need "calculators for beggars". I prefer to work at the android with MATHSTUDIO, instead of purchasing new toys from HP. BTW, at this forum nobody recalls about inexpensive qualitative HP-9G. HP is a religion nowadays. IMO, CASIO (TI, HP) nothing of the best didn't make anything since AFX-2.0 plus (TI-92plus, HP-50G).

Funny you should mention two calculators which are veiled clones of the Casio fx-6300G, which is mysteriously overrated given the programmable calculator that it actually is—the lowest of the low end of Casio’s graphing calculators (whether it is even a “real” graphing calculator is debatable as its functions are so poorly integrated and graphing appears as an almost self-evident afterthought—the entire graphing display is off to the left side of the liquid crystal and it is very low resolution). In fact, none of the first-generation Casio machines count (IMHO) as “real” graphing calculators even though they mostly look like they should be—with how well graphing is integrated into the operating system, it seems like some pointy-haired boss simply took the fx-4000P and replaced some of its program memory with a graphing capability rather than actually designing a graphing calculator. Therefore, I shall submit to you all that all this fawning over such an uninspiring machine as the Casio fx-6300G (French electronics firm Lexibook has their mark on an entire series of clones of it and its non-programmable twin the fx-6200G) or almost anything not originally by TI or HP gives the lie to the saying that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”—who sincerely thinks Casio is being flattered by any of this? Frankly, Casio probably isn’t even too proud of either these two calculators anymore—if they ever were all that proud of them anyway.