HP Prime or HP 50g
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07-12-2018, 02:34 PM
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RE: HP Prime or HP 50g
(07-12-2018 01:52 PM)Neve Wrote: The issue is not whether the Prime hardware is good; it is... Says the gentleman who a few short posts ago labeled the Prime "pure crap." Sorry, but there is too much HP-bashing and contradictory statements being made for me to give credence to what is being said. ----------- I am curious about one thing, and perhaps Cyrille or Tim would be kind enough to reply to this. HP obviously expects people to buy the Prime, not just use the computer simulated version for free. Am I right? :-) And to be sure, I would want a device I could hold in my hand over an on-screen simulated calculator any day. But my question is this? Why is the documentation any different? I don't share Neve's negativity toward HP at all, but I do agree that PRINTED documentation is as much of value over a PDF as a real Prime is over the simulated version. To say a PDF is sufficient for documentation is akin to saying the simulated Prime is sufficient as a calculator. To me, that doesn't make a lot of sense. If I really don't care about a book, I'll get a digital version of it. But if I care about a book, expecting to read portions more than once, and seeking to put it on my bookshelf as a reference manual, I will seek out a printed version. And while I could just print out the entire HP Prime documentation on my laser printer, that really isn't the same as having a well bound book, like HP documentation of old. I don't mean to bash anyone at HP by saying this, and I for one do NOT think the Prime is "feces" as some here repeatedly contend. But I do feel strongly about the need for printed documentation. Yes, I know its 2018 and its been a trend to do away with paper and save all those trees. But again, what if there was a trend to do away with the physical Prime so as to use the free simulated version? Perhaps can see my point. Some of us would actually pay a little to get a good printed set of manuals akin to what we got with HP calculators in the past. Could we hear HP's reasoning on this? Thank you. |
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