HP Prime or HP 50g

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The HP Prime or HP-50g?

After a long and careful deliberation, I bought one of each.

My thought is that the Prime is still in a late beta test phase. If one is willing to accept the need for a few updates and has faith that HP will provide such, then the Prime is the way to go.

Can the Prime beat the TI-83 and its descendants? The answer to this has little to do with price or feature set, but rather the willingness on the part of HP to provide the range of secondary products and support needed by students and their instructors.

I recently spent a big chunk of time reviewing high end graphing calculators as I needed to get one for a friend's daughter who will soon be taking the college board exams. I finally decided on getting a TI-84 C Plus Silver -- a sort of juiced-up TI-83 with a color screen. While I would have preferred to bring another RPN convert into the fold, it would have been difficult to provide the appropriate mentoring when the student and I are separated by about 5,000 km.