Competition to TI’s 30X Pro MathPrint

[Matt Agajanian]

Although I can enjoy all three, I’m not sure the TI-30X MathPrint/36X Pro vs HP-35S is a balanced comparison, each have their hits & misses, each are in separate classes & usages.

With the TIs, you’re dealing with textbook or single-line entry and preprogrammed functions for straightforward statement evaluation as well as statistics applications, especially that these are table based whereas the 35S handles equation entry in textbook form or as RPN entry & linear expression entry these as keystroke programmable calculators designed to operate as programmable calculators or evaluation of expressions as a linear stream and not equation entry.

Although function sets are somewhat similar, each has its own methodology, but they’re designed to achieve the same goals.

Put simply, a more applicable and level comparison should be the 30X MathPrint/36X Pro should be compared to the same type of calculators-Sharp EL-W516T, Casio 991EX Plus, et cetera whereas HP’s 35S should be compared to keystroke programmables.