HP 50G vs. HP Prime

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(06-19-2016 07:46 PM)peacecalc Wrote:  Hello all,

I don't want to offend anybody. In my opinion, at first the question: "How useful is such a comparison between such different machines?" should be answered.

In my eyes we compare very different machines (different target groups, different programming languages, different OS versatility, different input philosophies, different
output possibilities and communication abilities and so on).

And the answers are predictable: this machine is better (for me) because of the feature A, B, C ...(because I like such features). So the answers give a response about the kind of user of the calculator and not so much about the machine.

If you have the machine you like, you are a happy guy, that's all.

I would say that such a discussion is actually quite useful! While answers such as "this machine is better" are not really very helpful, different folks suggesting "this feature or that for doing task XYZ is better on this machine than the other..." can be very helpful for a person looking to do the same task.

So the discussion is useful not for any absolute answer about which is the better machine, but rather it's useful for the ideas that surface in the discussion of folks stating why they prefer one.

All that said, the only fully correct answer is to get both machines, regardless of which pair of machines are being compared.