First impressions on Casio FX-5800P

[Dave Britten]

How is the speed? I've got an fx-9860g Slim that smokes pretty much everything in its weight class.

Casio stuff is generally pretty good, especially considering their focus on lower-priced models. I think the heavily modal UI is something of an Achilles' heel, however, and artificially limits program flexibility.

On a related note, I just got an fx-8500g in the mail today. It's a quite peculiar mix of their first-gen models (fx-7000g) and pocket computers. It's also got one of the strangest text editors I've seen since vi. Pretty cool overall, but it's still annoying that there's no Print/Disp command that doesn't pause program execution. (Is the fx-5800p the same in that respect?)