HP Prime FW for 2023?

[akmarul]

(01-15-2023 05:19 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  

(01-15-2023 02:33 PM)pschlie Wrote:  I suspect the best HP/Moravia can hope for, is to not be prohibited use within the educational and professional exam market, and instead concentrate on offering sufficient superior differentiable functionality to attract students and professionals who don't need to be instructed on which buttons to push within textbooks to accomplish their goals; as may possibly be offered by continuing to improve its alternative RPN, graphical, symbolic, programmability, and general ease-of-use capabilities (including documentation).

Attempting to unseat TI in the grade/high-school educational market is most likely a waste of time, and as the vast majority of students will never use a calculator again after graduating, concentrating on technical university and professional market needs, seems likely to be most productive use of limited resources. (At this point one can only hope, time will tell it seems.)

That was my point exactly. Forget the education market. Casio and TI have that segment sewn up neatly. Come out with a true handheld computer that the traditional HP market (scientists, engineers, surveyors) will actually want to use.

Hello all. Great discussion. When I first got my Prime few weeks ago, after knowing how to use CAS and etc, my first impression was, there is quite some similarities with Mathcad. For example, in Mathcad, if you want to assign a value to a variable, you use :=, and another example on the solve(), the syntax is the same with Mathcad (one example is solve(x+2=1,x) will give -1). I was beginning to hypothesis, that HP Prime is a collaboration of HP and Mathcad (since one of Mathcad program is called Mathcad Prime).

If HP or Moravia has a plan to come up with a new calculator, or totally overhaul Prime FW, it would be awesome if it can be a JV between HP or Moravia, with Mathcad. All can the functions/codes can be leveraged from Mathcad, with no limit. The RPN need to be there, since for normal calculations, RPN is very efficient.