What makes the Prime so fast?

[debrouxl]

The primary factor in the Prime's speed is indeed the raw CPU speed. Secondary factors are probably that Bernard Parisse and HP didn't screw up the implementation too much.

Now if only the Prime had 64 MB of RAM or more, instead of having no more RAM than a '2007 Nspire Clickpad... that would give it a lot more headroom for 1) complex user programs and 2) more OS features before out of memory issues strike