Advice to buy an HP

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(04-16-2015 06:01 PM)Gerald H Wrote:  Is there any evidence that the sum total of malfunctions & their severity has decreased?

Hi, Gerald.

That will be the HP best kept secret!

But from the release information notes (release_info.txt files) included in the official firmware releases, we see that the HP PRIME team has been kind of busy killing those nasty bugs, many of them found and reported here in the MoHPC.

Let's see:

Date Released: 2014/12/03
Firmware Version: 2014 12 03 (6975)
Virtual Calculator Version: 2014 12 03 (6975)
Connectivity Kit: 2014 12 03 (6975)

- General machine fixed bugs: 46
- Specific CAS environment fixed bugs: 73
- New calculator features: 12
- New virtual calculator features: 2
- New Connectivity Kit features: 7


Date Released: 2014/07/02
Firmware Version: 2014 07 02 (6031)
Virtual Calculator Version: 2014 03 31 (6031)
Connectivity Kit: 2014 03 31 (6026)

- General machine fixed bugs: 1


Date Released: 2014/03/31
Firmware Version: 2014 03 31 (6030)
Virtual Calculator Version: 2014 03 31 (6031)
Connectivity Kit: 2014 03 31 (6026)

- General machine fixed bugs: 40
- Specific CAS environment fixed bugs: 75
- New calculator features: 19
- New virtual calculator features: 1
- New Connectivity Kit features: 3


Date Released: 11/25/2013
Firmware Version: 2013 11 25 (5447)
Emulator Version: 2013 11 25 (5447)
Connectivity Kit: 2013 11 25 (5442)

- General and including CAS fixed bugs: 73


The official HP Prime software and documentation FTP repository location is:

Code:


ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/calculators/Prime/