<p>My brother just bought the ti-84 + silveredition after he lsot his Ti -83 + silver edition. Then, while doing his Practice SAT's, he found out that his MAth SAT score went from a 750 rangeto a 680 range! ANd guess what was the culprit!
I saw him use it and there's something about it that scares me. If you look closely, the pad with the numbers on the TI 84 + silver edition is curved inward, and the surrounding faceplat is raised, so the numbers are set inside the little wavy things, and the buttons themselves are curved inward, so it's really hard to quickly type in numbers say, for the SAT. since so little of it is rasied, if your fingernails are the tiniest bit long, like a millimeter long, you can make lots of mistakes while typing in the numbers. plus the buttons are incredibly small, so whereas on the ti 83 SE you can spot them quickly, on the 84 since th ebuttons are pointed at the sides, the tiniest bit of sideways movement can couasea wrong number!!!!!! I'm so ****ed, since i know that texas inrumentsmade it so that it would look cool, and it does, (more egormnomic), but that defeats the real prupose: USING IT!!!!!!!!!. SO we're gonna drive4 hours tommorw to this little warehouse that still sells TI- 83 + silver editions , since the texas intruments stopped making them.</p>
<p>I've asked people at my school, but no one seems to have them. I pity anyone with these stupid pieces of $$130 junk! sorry for my little rant, but I wanna boycottTeax Instrumets. Obviously the people who made them aren't high school students!!! they only designed it to look good, not work good!!!!
SO>>>>
IS ANYBODY ELSE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM< OR AM I THE ONLY ONE????
IF NOT< HOW do you guys deal with it? (th ecalculator) and i'm serious......hah, I sound like a retard, but guys, please give some input on this issue as it is a serious one.</p>
<p>I have to use the ti-84 for AP statistics next year. Do you guys have to key in lots of numbers for AP stats? becuase my school requires the ti-84 + silveer edition for that class, and the keypad on it is driving me crazy. If any of you guys are taking AP stat's, and use a ti 84 +, is it functionally good for the class? by that i mean do you guys have problems with the kkeypad at times? Thanks so much, PLEASE reply!!!!! ;-) See above</p>
<p>I own a ti-89 Titanium, same revisions, you just need to get used to it... I think you're just going crazy. Just use it more and it'll be easier. Also I don't agree that the curved in buttons are harder to type numbers with (I don't have fingernails, I just have fat fingertips from piano and cello). Also for the math SAT, the curve is killer, between two real tests, I went from a 700 to an 800, and that was a difference of 2 or 3 questions.</p>
<p>I have the TI 83 + Silver Edition; a lot of people at my school wonder y they bought the new ones- they slide on cover doesn't work as easily, and I think the only great advantage is more memory and the usb port. I'm perfectly content with my old one.
Michele</p>
<p>the slide on cover doesn't work as easily because its just in the opposite direction and because its new? The cover on my ti-83 (7 years old now I suppose) falls right off when I hold the calculator and turn it upside down. Its not much of a difference, but if you need to get a new one anyway might as well get the newest one available.</p>
<p>uhh i have no problems like that with mine... i guess i just got used to it. in fact, whenever i use the ti-83 + it feels weird because i like my ti-84 +</p>