[Off-topic] HP Prime is for students... What about professionals?

[Morten Pors]

HP should just add the directory/file system similar to the 48-49-50 series calculators. In my eyes that would make the Prime much more useful as a tool. But as Tim Wessman reminded us, they "just don't support that". So people are left with the rather slow, lo-res, not-usable-in-dim-light 50G, for professional use. The defining characteristic of which often being repetitive tasks and the requirement to effectively tie in with an existing body of method and data of a certain amount.

They are both great machines really, just some seemingly strange choices on HP's behalf product-wise. I mean, most students will happily cope with professional features they don't need while not so much the other way around. I often dream of the hybrid - something like the 50G with the Prime's screen and tactile graphic interface. Or just a file system on the Prime, please.