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How fast is the HP Prime?
03-12-2014, 04:30 AM (This post was last modified: 03-12-2014 04:40 AM by Chris Pem10.)
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RE: How fast is the HP Prime?
I've got an old Pentium 90 and a Core i5 overclocked at 4.8 GHz. Regardless; I can still only type about 20 wpm on each... because the interface never changed. My results are 99% determined by how fast I can find and press the correct button.

Where the Prime fell short in my expectations was in the interface: it has a full-color touchscreen that is under-utilized. It's 2014: any physical keyboard on a handheld device is obsolete. I wanted the ability to not just make user-defined keys... I wanted user-defined on-screen keyboards. I wanted to press one key and launch "calculus keyboard mode" or another button for "unit conversion keyboard". Would have been cool if a teacher could "lock-in" a custom keyboard of functions they wanted to allow for a particular exam. And every time I swipe the screen to the left, I get a new calculator instance for "parallel calculations"... so if I'm stuck on exam problem #2 I can just swipe a new calculator instance and come back to problem #2 later without having to re-enter everything.

If someone would re-engineer the HP48 android emulator and, instead of using the stock HP48 keyboard layout, create a custom keybaord that dynamically covered the entire screen real estate of a 10" tablet, that would be worth paying for... even if it could "only" perform the same functions as a 25 year old calc.
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How fast is the HP Prime? - jebem - 03-09-2014, 07:17 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - eried - 03-09-2014, 07:22 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - HP67 - 03-10-2014, 03:07 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - eried - 03-10-2014, 05:21 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - HP67 - 03-10-2014, 05:56 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - jebem - 03-10-2014, 07:34 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - HP67 - 03-11-2014, 10:34 AM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - Han - 03-10-2014, 03:13 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - CR Haeger - 03-10-2014, 09:55 PM
RE: How fast is the HP Prime? - Chris Pem10 - 03-12-2014 04:30 AM



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