HP 48G - what next?

[JSS]

(02-22-2019 02:32 PM)Nigel (UK) Wrote:  ........

However, I think that you might be happier with the HP50g because of your stated need for "EE and physics libraries". There is an excellent Prime app called SolvSys that acts as a solver and equation library, but if it doesn't do what you want there may not be many alternatives. The HP50g has a lot of third-party applications available; the Prime does not, at least not yet. (Of course, you can write your own!)

Nigel (UK)

I have read through the libraries available in hpcalc.org. There seems to be more interesting software for Prime, too. Just for curiosity I tested the Prime Lite app on my Android phone but it looks like the program language is available only for the Prime Pro emulator (21,99 EUR.)

[I don't want to spend too much for this project since my employer has decided that (for a reason so far unknown to me) they give us whatever we need for computers, phones, software licenses like Comsol, MATLAB etc but we need to buy our programmable pocket calculators with our own money. Probably since they don't want to support the use of software that is not easily kept updated and documented. Their point of view might also be that it is expensive and time-consuming to let us play with new calculators during work-hours (which we are anyway doing on our own time.) However, the use of our own personal calculator programs is not so far prohibited in my work.]

So, I am going to find a "refurbished" or used 50G since I have some of my own RPL programs ready for the new device (I hope). I think 50G might be the best fit for my use. I use a calculator only for quick approximations (which I still find uneasy to program for simple RPN calculators like 35S) and when I don't want to carry my laptop around and play with MATLAB scripts or even more time consuming FEM models.

Thanks Nigel and all others for your invaluable comments.

I apologize for my english language.

BR JSS