HP Prime or HP 50g

[15-lennyphelan]

This is an old thread I know but my 50g is my favorite calculator and I'm surprised that few people here seem to agree. I'm an engineering student and the filesystem is my favorite feature of this calc. I take a given homework assignment, make a new folder (the documentation is very stern about calling them directories), and write a handful of RPL 1 liner programs into it. The programs show up right on the hotkeys, I enter data a, space, data b, space, data c, then wham bam thank you ma'am hit the hotkey bob's your uncle here's your answer. I like the prime but I find that I feel like I'm pointlessly pressing buttons over and over again. As you grow proficient with the 50g you'll appreciate the painstaking effort HPers really seem to have put into distilling out every extraneous button press. Only thing is I find myself taking notes on it like the order that arguments are loaded into the stack for a definite integral or something.

Interesting how the HP 48 was lauded for introducing the equation writer because it's basically useless compared to what the 50g CAS is capable of right on the stack. I can whip complicated equations into being just by piecing together unevaluated variables in seconds, then I can store it right into a program with the somewhat strange DEF command. The prime feels very awkward in comparison.