Re: A poll for 48 users/owners Message #18 Posted by James M. Prange on 16 Apr 2003, 12:35 a.m., in response to message #1 by Jeremy
1. What percentage of the features of your hp48G would you guess that
you use?
HP 48GX, actually. I won't even hazard a guess. Certainly all program
structures and stack manipulation commands. But for mathematics, my use
is pretty much for basic arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, coordinate
system transformations, and statistics. Some use of string commands,
mostly for labeling printouts and such. I seldom use the graphing
features, but it's nice to have them available when I want them. And I
play around with it a lot, just to experiment with what can be done.
2. Are you satisfied with that? Please explain briefly.
Sure. What more would I want a calculator to do? And if it can do even
more than I know how to use, so what? It doesn't reduce what I can do
with the calculator.
3. Are you glad you bought it, or do you feel ripped off?
I bought it back around 1994 (at maybe about US$275?), and I certainly
didn't feel "ripped off", if I understand that term correctly. I did
choose to spend my money, and the 48GX is at least as good as I'd read.
But I was slightly disappointed; not that there's any problem with it,
but it isn't as much of an improvement over the 48SX as the 48SX is over
the 28S. But now that they're available at bargain basement prices on
eBay, I have two spares, and if I weren't so short of money I'd buy more
while they're cheap.
4. If you could only have ONE calculator, and you had to choose between
one of those listed below, which would it be?
a. TI-85 b. hp 48G/GX/G+ (whichever...) c. hp 34C (hehehe) d. hp 32SII
e. hp 20s f. TI-89
b: 48GX
5. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, what overall score would
you give the HP48G/GX/G+ ?
Do you mean as compared to any other calculator currently available? If
so, then 10.
6. If you had to pick one thing about the 48 series as its main
downfall, what would it be?
a. Slow processor b. Unintuitive design (too hard to figure out) c.
Poorly designed, from the standpoint of user-friendliness d. Poorly
designed, from an ergonomic standpoint e. Other (explain in one sentence
or less)
e: It's too big to fit in my shirt pocket.
Regards, James
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