Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by the_pwner224 on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:21PM (#21052550)

I had a TI nSpire CX CAS in high school (like the 89 but with a color LCD screen and hackable with Lua and C - it runs Doom and GBA/NES emulators).

In the final year of high school I was taking a class that did not require a graphing calculator, so I bought a TI 36X Pro, an advanced scientific calculator. It has excellent 'UI', tons of functionality, and the buttons feel great to type on (though after a long time they will still start to get mushy). I actually used to carry both of my calculators with me, the CAS for when I needed it and the 36X for normal usage since it felt better to use.

It's not a school monopolozer like the 84/89 so it's priced well, at <$20. I bought another one in college after I lost the first one. I'm doing CS so I don't need it often, but I find it to be worth keeping around.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by Baeocystin on Monday September 23, 2019 @09:35PM (#21055615)

The 36X Pro is my surprise modern favorite of the non-graphing 'cheap' sci calcs I use. The keys really do feel good to use.

(I still consider my HP 48SX My Precious, though. Yay RPN and all that.)

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by unsignedint on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:38PM (#21142750)

Thanks to this thread I bought TI-36X Pro myself. While I don't have constant needs to calculate thing, I was looking for a good calculator that I can keep in my bag. This seems to be a perfect calculator for that purpose, price and feature wise.

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