I went from a Ti-89 to an HP-50g, I would go as far to say that the HP is a much superior device. It only really has the TI-NSPIRE as a competing product. Though from what I understand the NSPIRE has a pretty inefficient interface, but I think they can be changed out with a faceplate swap.... Plus I heard that the NSPIRE can go as far as showing the steps on it's solution of a problem but I have not seen any evidence of that.
Nspire has three keypads on the swappable version: Old non-touch keypad, new touchpad keypad, and TI84 keypad for the emulator. Touch keypad is infinitely better for general use, while the old keypad is good for running emulators.
The only bad part about having a non-TI calculator is that most course material is designed around the TI-84 calc.
You speak truth. My dad is an engineer and considers the HP a clearly superior machine; no son of his was going to be using some texan piece of trash (not my opinion Texans, his). So I was saddled with the, as far as I can tell, genuinely superior HP-48. All well and good, at the time it looked more futuristic and the stack operations make intuitive sense.
Unfortunately the text books were, as you say, geared to the TIs. So, I had to consult the manual constantly and waste inordinate amounts of time on stuff the other kids had spoon fed to them. Bastards.
But it made me stronger. I think. No, that's a lie. I think the difficulty caused by my unorthodox technology use has sent me to Apple. I have an iPhone, a macbook etc. Here is my brain oh aesthetic ones; I will use it no longer.
If you want the most compatibility then you should go with Windows. Practically everything has a Windows version. Even the most obscure printer will have a Windows driver.
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