HP Prime going the way obsoletion...

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(08-25-2018 07:51 PM)stefos Wrote:  Hi everyone,

So I have ordered the HP Prime G2 and am anticipating it eagerly.

I was on another HP site and some buyer of the Revision C stated that,
the prime would be obsolete in 10 years.

What's your take on graphing calculators going obsolete?

Stefos

Physical calculators may be gone but emulators will live on in smart phone apps. Everyone carries a phone. Why carry two devices when one will do? On-site engineers, pilots and surveyors (to name a few professions) will always need a portable tool to do advanced calculations and laptops and tablets are too bulky in a lot of cases. Eventually, we may have processors implanted in us and graphics devices in our eyes to allow us to have output from calculations and augmented reality graphics without external hardware but I think ten years is a rather optimistic estimate to expect that. Of course it could be like flying cars. In the 1930s through the '60s, most science predictions had us all flying around in our own personal flying cars by now. We all know what happened to those predictions!