<p>Just another bunch of dumb HS students who have been brainwashed into using a inferior product. Just look at the specs between the 80T and the 50G, its not even a comparison.</p>
<p>I've used a 50G. Not enough to write home about.</p>
<p>if you have used a 50g then there is no possibility that you would prefer a ti-89. Its like choosing a Honda Civic over a Lamborghini, which the 50G is the Lamborghini.</p>
<p>I highly doubt you have used the 50G.</p>
<p>I prefer the 83, not the 89.</p>
<p>And besides, I would choose the civic over the lamborghini- lower insurance costs.</p>
<p>well the 50G is cheaper than a new 89, so your a fool.</p>
<p>as for the 83, its a joke, my Casio 115fs which is a Scientific will do everything it can faster and better to.</p>
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First, it would be "you are." Don't try to insult others like this if you don't have a basic understanding of English grammar. It's rather amusing.
Second, my 83 does everything I need it to, so why waste any money on a 50G (or 89) when I don't need it?
Third, why does speed matter when my 83 works fast enough that I never have to wait longer than .2 seconds?</p>
<p>Here on out, I end my feeding of this troll forever.</p>
<p>i agree with johnson here.. </p>
<p>seriously htrz what is your problem? is mommy and daddy too cheap to buy you an 89??? shut the f- up, really</p>
<p>go with TI calculators because everyone else uses them so you can link each other programs/games/etc. its easier that way.. i mean how are you going to get the other programs if you're the only kid in the school with a HP or casino? exactly.</p>
<p>83s are good.. cheap, simple, easy to use.. i like using them from time to time, EVERYONE at my school uses them, my bro and sis have them, although my mom's looking at buying my bro an 89 for calc</p>
<p>mommy and daddy didn't buy it for me, or anything else for that matter., I got it for free, as I helped develop the software for it.</p>
<p>Just because everynpody buys a product doesn't mean its a good product. Just the fact that most teachers are to incompetent to recommend anything else.</p>
<p>How do you get new programs, how about you grow a brain and write them yourself. or how do the original kids get them.</p>
<p>If you are a idiot get the Ti, its made for and by idiots. </p>
<p>If you are a smart person in a Pure science, math or Engineering, get the HP as it will help you greatly in the future.</p>
<p>Im not a HS student, Im a professional engineer already. Ive already graduated college and already have a masters degree in EE. </p>
<p>You can always tell who the new engineer is, by who is carry a Ti. what a joke.</p>
<p>Someone I know has both an 83 and an 89, and he always uses the 83 over the 89.</p>
<p>I have a 83+ and it works fine.</p>
<p>LMAO- so why are you hanging around the high school life board? Tad bit on the creepy side. So what "school" did you go to? Anywhere I'm applying you can't use anything above a scientific calc. in upper level engineering/math courses anyway.</p>
<p>Seriously you guys are crazy if you think Ti's are better because everyone has them. Who needs programs, HP's have a library of 2300 equations built-in. If you even have any knowledge you will also know that the RPN is awesome and super-efficient. and anyone playing games on a calculator obviously needs something better to do in life.</p>
<p>I have read these forums for a very long time, since I was a undergrad. I saw this post and re registered.</p>
<p>For my Undergrad in CSE I went to penn state, and for my masters in EE I went to RPI. In my Undergrad at PS I was allowed to use a Calulator of any choice in any engineering class, from the most basic to the most advanced. I used a Hp 48GX for the most part and now use a 50G. I was allowed to use the graphing calculator in all Physics classes. I was only allowed to use a scientific in Calc 1,2 and then in Diffy eq, Linear A, and Calc 3, no calculators at all were allowed. Thogh In Partial Diff wq, topology and cryptography they didn't care.</p>
<p>At RPI, I mostly did lab work and had a few classes, they could care less if you had a laptop open with Maple loaded. So of course my 50G was fine.</p>
<p>Its quite foolish to Limit the use of a calculator in a engineering curriculum, you will be using computers so much in your actual career, I would consider it a vice if you didn't use one. The fact is in some of My past EE classes doing double and partial integrals is very tedious, I can say I could cut down the time to do homework, atleast in half.</p>
<p>I never plan to take the FE and PE exam, so I love and take advantage of my Calculators.</p>
<p>dtl42 is right on all points he makes.</p>
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Its quite foolish to Limit the use of a calculator in a engineering curriculum, you will be using computers so much in your actual career, I would consider it a vice if you didn't use one.
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That's one thing that I can agree with you on. (My elder relatives in engineering like to say that they never used even the most simple calculators, however... if you can use one in the real world, why waste your time without one?).</p>
<p>But for the high school level, I'm still going to say that a 50g/89 isn't necessary.</p>
<p>well the fact is engineering students used to not take Physics or even Calculus or even much math past arithmetic, they were considered to be design students more than a quantitative student. Then people started to be much more concerned with money and in result we started relize that if we used math we would have less errors and in result have more profits.</p>
<p>Engineers used to Build off of pure skill and intuition, most of the time it worked great. But we can use math and science to back up our work.</p>
<p>I personnel hate math, if I build a circuit, I don't need any math to tell me if it will work, I just know it, its intuition. But I do understand that I need to use it at time, and for my employer I always need to show my work.</p>
<p>My Father a Civil Engineer, never uses math, he just does it and people trust him.</p>
<p>My dad's an ee- and had to go up to calc 3, diff equations, the like, and typical physics. But he does have the whole intuition thing as well- and confounds the younger engineers when he just "knows" something while they're plugging in to some formula.</p>
<p>Well, if you have a Masters Degree, you MUST be right...</p>
<p>I'd still like to see a source that says one is better than the other.</p>
<p>And who cares really, as long as it does what you need it to do?</p>
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<p>dude.. this is just HS.. who gives in like 2 years, the kid's going to college and his/her parents are going to buy them a new calculator.. so really who gives.. this is for now, for HS calc... not for college engineering.. gez</p>
<p>and i agree.. it is kind of creepy.. i mean you must be in your mid-20s.. 30s? maybe.. and i'm like 17.. i think i would know HS better...</p>
<p>but then again.. i do get weirded out by the amount of parents on these forums..</p>
<p>No Im only 22.</p>