Re: 33s First Impressions Message #3 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 7 Apr 2004, 8:17 p.m., in response to message #2 by Ben Salinas
Hi,
of course no flames, only some thoughts.
I think you can hardly compare any of the classic HP calcs up to and including the 48GX with the newer ACO and post-ACO stuff.
So far the only new machine with some potential could be the 49g+ (except the kbd layout, of course;-)
As we all know, there were some reasons for the entry system of the HP-35 and sucessors.
One of them is it's high efficiency for input, another that it was much cheaper to produce. RAM as expensive back then.
And I doubt that the first calc users would have thrown away these machines, because they offered new methods of calculating logs & trigs, etc, thus omitting the tables, combined with an ergonomic way of entering data, using the ENTER key. It was a big step forward!
IMHO the 33S isn't much of a step forward, except the ALG/RPN switch, but you could see in the 12Cpt how serious ALG mode was...
Instead, it's just a design experiment, like many mobile phones.
Why do you think the SonyEricsson T630 (and T610) are so successful? Because they have a straight keyboard layout
and a user interface that simply works.
There's not much to 'get used to', instead just use it;-)
BTW: What do mean with 'It really isn't that bad' ?
Is it as good as the kbd of a 32SII, or is it just a bit better than some people feared?
Raymond
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