Oh, I so gottas get my hands on one of those, if only because it is yellow. I know my school will never get them, so I do not have to worry about them thinking that I stole it. Let the hunting begin.

-W-

come off it people. You cannot tell me that you do not want a yellow calc. That would be awesome. I wonder if I can send my calc to those people that paint consoles and get it yellow'ed up.

-W-

What's amazing is that you could potentially have a four(!) color calculator. think about it. The front is silver, the back is yellow, and you just buy two slide cover/face plate sets, and there you go! that would Pwn.

the yellow on gray for the 84 se, I don't really care for. but the yellow on black for the 84 would look awesome.

...or FLAMES!!!!! Pimp my calc.

You know, if I were TI, I would have made a few subtle changes to these calculators... such as removing the freeware app key so only certain approved apps could be loaded. Maybe somehow suppressing use of the archive as well...

I guess it's a good thing I'm not TI.

Yeah. You'd anger the one or two math teachers who actually would undertand what you did.

I meant that those two actually use apps like that.

look at the ti73....

Well i guess that now no one can steal them...but if they still are interested, they could steal the faceplates....but that would be retarded
Besides, rather than spending 100 dollars on a new calc, im gonna get the best thing of all time!
HALO 2 on TUESDAY!

I thought that it was tonight.

We got to play Halo 2 on link play today in Technology Applications!!! Yay!!!

It won't stop people from stealing school-bourght batteries....

I confess to stealing about 2 sets when my ti89 was running low...

All TI would need to do is make the battery cover door screw down, like the backup battery. Most kids don't carry screwdrivers to school. To combat kids bringing them, all they have to do is make a proprietary (spelling) screw head and 1 teacher screwdriver to open the door.

Oh no...no...NO...not MORE proprietary screw heads!!! There are enough of those already...

But still a good idea for keeping the batteries intact.

or they could have a rechargeable battery like the gameboy SP

That would be insanely expensive and I know my teachers are too lazy to recharge them anyway.

Expensive to buy initially, maybe, but in the long run costs would be lower for not having to change the batteries. Electricity out of a wall plug costs a lot less than new batteries...

I guess so. But don't rechargable batteries usually have shorter lifespans then normal alkalines? I don't really think this would affect anything if you recharged the batteries fairly often, though.

Regular alkaline recharables last 50 recharges, while nimh rechargables last up to 1000 times. 1000 packs of batteries would run about $3000, while these are only $10 a pack or so.

What about LI-ion? Those are pretty good, and cheap.

Are you talking about running time per charge? I find that NiMH batteries last almost as long as one charge of alkaline batteries (maybe only about 10-20% shorter). In really high-drain applications, NiMH may last longer than alkalines, but in my experience NiMH are usually about the same in most cases, plus you can reuse them hundreds (or thousands) of times.

NiCad batteries have pretty short runtimes per charge, though--about like buying those cheap carbon batteries.

Even better: A wireless charger! The case where you store the calculators could be the charging dock. They're recharged overnight, without needing to do anything!

what's the point of a wireless charger why not have a wirless power cord?