50g or 49g+?

[rprosperi]

(01-19-2018 10:07 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Me too. In the meantime I got my (collecting value only...) HP-49g from the States. It has got the "bad" keyboard - really substandard! - never saw a calculator made by Ti with such a bad one and they really are not famous for their good keys. Luckily I do not need to use it! Also the color scheme and key labeling is very poor (whoever chose those Teletubby-style colors must get his color vision checked before designing another product) and hardly readable. This calculator ticks off the "49g"-box in the list but this is about it.

To be clear, the OP was about a 50g vs. a 49g+, not a 49g. The 49g is infamous for being about the worst high-end machine HP ever made. It was Ok except for those horrible colors (the façade was dubbed "frozen hamster butt blue"), rubber keys (that often broke), it introduced the small Enter key in lower-right for RPN/L (a sin severe enough to make it a hated model, even without the other terrible problems), all those helpful arrow key legends near the arrow keys, (explaining that the Down key means down), etc.

There is no discussion at all about 49g vs. 50g, but as noted above a 49g+ can fill-in if you have a late model or are on a strict budget.