Survey posted 2004-01-07 23:30 by Henrik.

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Cool new survey too.

Yey! I make up 16.7% of users at the time of this post!

0.6%, now. ^_^

What opinion was that?

Ok, people, 84+ SE, get one, I would rather have it than an 89, well, ok, I'd rather have BOTH, but I can't. My school frowns uppon 89's, which is probably why, and I'd have to learn an all new programing language. I'm gettin and 84+SE, just because my friends will be incredibly jealous, and becuase it'll make programing better. The only problem, now I have to check two forms every day. Upcomming 83+ games, and 84+ games, oh well...

Your school frowns upon TI-89's? I frown upon your school. >:O

Well then frown on my school, they frown on 89's too

Ummm... My school does not give damn that I know of. Unless it is because they are not aware of it's existance. My Freshman/Sophomore teacher did not.

-W-

I'm sure once you get into precalc or trig stuff, they'll care. Unless they're like my geometry teacher, who had no idea how to run her 83+SE (which the precalc teacher bought for her), and had to have me fix it every time she put it in wrong syntax.

The great thing about teachers that know nothing about calcs is that they also don't know you're playing games when you rapidly hit 2nd and the arrows. "Oh, that kid. He's really smart. Probably doing cube roots of large numbers, for his science project....But that girl over there, she's stupid. She must be playing that puzzle pack thing"
...

LOL, thats the way it should be...

Yeah, it can be painful watching people not be able to figure out how to use a calc even though it seems obvious to you.

I'll probably get an 84+ SE for the same reason. Anyone know how much They'll cost?

$200 MAX I assume. Or... HOPE!!!

$200 for an 84+ SE?! The new 89 Titanium would probably cost that much. I think more like $150 MAX for the 84+ SE.

More like $120 MAX.

Nah, $150 sounds about right for the 84+SE. Although it will drop to about $130 after a few months of it being on the market.

Acually, the retail price is $109.XX (dont know the cents.... I have one:-P

yeah TI.com says 84+ should be $110 direct from thier store, and 84+ SE should be $130

i think the 'who messd the website' survey was the shortest in ticalc history
BTW- will the true person ever be revealed

I REALLY hope so....

It already has. IT WAS HENRIK!! Well, actually, it hasn't, and I was kidding, but I think it should be Henrik.

...or maybe a TI-CAS/AMS app for my sony clie palm OS5 200 mhz 320x320 16 bit colour (original spelling) device. If TI goes any furthur, they will be making computers/PDAs, and will be unable to brand them as calculators, except for the convenient number buttons. The only purpose for that much memory is not apps, but games (not that that is bad). Perhaps either an 86 with flash rom, or a TI-PDA with a calculator keypad and CAS, running some embedded linux like embedix... with an FPU, something that no PDA has, afaik. Add a few serial ports, a good screen, mp3/ogg playback, and engineers and students alike would die for it

in a few years you will have a computer/calculator/cell phone/camera/PDA/MP3/handheld gaming device all in one

agreed :-)

basically a smart phone (PDA/Cell Phone/Camera/MP3/Somewhat of a computer [pocket windows]/graphing calculator) and a NGAGE by Nokia

Yah, just about all of PalmOne's handhelds are exactly that. They may lack the easy BASIC programming, but they've got all of the essentials listed.

Just wait until Palm's add graphing and symbolic differentiation (sp?) capabilities, and put it in a little box with a lot of buttons (no touch screen). I'd like to see some kid show up with that to his math class.

But it depends on the price...yes they will come out with those type of devices...but will they BOOM, or just be in the computer economic background

An 86+ would be nice....maybe some flash....folder support....

Why waste time with mp3 playback, let alone oggVorbis? I mean, with the kind of capcblities you listed, someone could just write one. It would save TI time, and a homemade would probally be better optimized.

-W-

well, my palm needs an "mp3 accelerator" to play them, simply because it has no FPU. If it did, it would still be a major hit on a cheap low power low speed no multitasking support CPU (although my palm can play mp3s, and delete memstick files simultaneously, so therefore there are some intterupt tricks, at least...). Does anyone know if the ARM chips can do multitasking or just interupts, and do they have a MMU (I have a vauge idea what that is, but looks like time to hit wikipedia...)?

Yeah, the ARM chips can do multitasking, in fact using interrupts as preemptive multitasking is always accomplished. I think practically every general-purpose processor can multitask. BTW, Linux runs on ARM processors.

Also, mp3 playback can be done using fixed-point (integer) math without any floating-point math at all. This means an MMU would be unnecessary, at least for playing mp3's.