HP-12C Platinum EOL?

[JDW]

(09-15-2020 01:24 AM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  I think Cyrille is a man of specifics too, and if he said 12c, he meant 12c.
I'd be surprised if the 12c Platinum is still being sold, frankly.

Then I am totally confused and confounded.

To reiterate what I said in my previous post...

The HP USA Financial Calculator page, at the time I created my opening post, listed ONLY the "12-C Platinum" and the normal "12-C" (Gold) was no where to be found. Again, I cannot reconfirm that today because of the silly blue screen of death when I try to access the Financial Calc page.

If indeed you are correct in that the PLATINUM has possibly been discontinued and only the 12-C (NOT "Platinum") remains in production, it makes ZERO SENSE that only the Platinum can/could be found in the HP USA Calculator store!

From what I have read on the 12-C Wiki, the newest edition 12-C (gold) has a much faster ARM processor than the Platinum, although I have also read the Platinum is about 6x faster than the 1981 edition 12-C's processor. So when we ponder that, what you said makes sense that the 12-C (NOT "Platinum) is the superior edition that logic dictates SHOULD still be sold. And yet, the fact is, it is no where to be found on the HP USA web store AND when searching for "12-C" on Amazon, the PLATINUM version appears as the first two results and Platinum is the only one marked "Amazon's Choice."

And since I am on the topic of Amazon, can someone verify if indeed the following two calculators are the latest versions still in production?

1. 12-C Platinum
2. 12-C