Re: Help me spend wisely... Message #2 Posted by Ron Ross on 6 Nov 2001, 4:31 p.m., in response to message #1 by Ted Henricks
You have a couple different choices.
1st: you could just buy a backup for your 49G, but the a High $ option.
2nd: Buy a 48G series whatever, plain, +, x. The best for you might be a +. This is a great number cruncher and more convienent keystroke layout for certain types of number crunching. Overall very similiar to the 49 but with less horsepower and speed.
Or you could buy a Ti.
Since you mention stats, out of the Box, the Ti-83 is only rivaled by the Hp49G. It lacks many other neccessary features in my opinion, but it is great for stats OUT of the BOX (all of the rest of these calculators have SW available that is as good or better). And the silver ed is the fastest calc for general number crunching there is (runs at 15MHz). But it has several defiencies as well, only really addresses 24K RAM and only has 27 single letter variables.
The Ti-86 is comparable to an Hp48G+. It has decent 2nd party software available and most is Free, even from Ti. Has units conversions which the Ti-83 lacks and 8 letter variable names also. It still is not quite as powerful as an Hp48 but nearly so.
Or lastly either a Ti-89 or Ti-92, both are the same calculator aside from the case, keyboard,display, and a geometry package included with the Ti-92. The 92 looks like a small palmtop type PC. This line has CAS and has a 12MHz Motorola CPU. For most general calculations, it is faster than an Hp49. It is a very good calculator, has Flash ROM just like the 49. It doesn't have as much RAM or ROM available and its file system is not as elaborate. An RPN software emulator is available for it as well.
If you are looking for the cheapest backup, you will now find Hp48G's sell for steep discounts.
If you are looking for just 1 new toy either a discounted extra 49G or a Ti89. If you are looking to spend $100, a Ti-86 isn't all that bad either.
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