| Author | Comment |
calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 8 Nov 2003
10:20 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Hey, when do you guys think they'll come out with color for the Silver Edition? Maybe a prgm or something?? That would be really cool. Anyways, what current calcs have color on them currently? The 89? 92? |
spiral
Wraith
Posted: 8 Nov 2003
16:50 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | Casio has one graphing calculator with color. It's very poor color implementation too. Having color is quite useless for math (sure it looks nice if done well) it also wastes batteries, causes larger operating system bloat, requires more powerful processor...
Really though, if your looking for color go buy a pda...it's not that much more expensive than a calculator. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 8 Nov 2003
18:15 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | you can hardly call Casio's color "color" since it only has 3. and yeah, get a PDA if you want color and other goodies. we'll grow old by the time they come up with a graphing calc with a full color display, besides, looking at current graphing calc prices a color one will cost a lot.
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calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 8 Nov 2003
18:30 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Yeah, I know, but if I could just have like one color game on my SE that I could play in cldonkey, it would me much better!!! |
BullFrog
Wraith
Posted: 8 Nov 2003
20:37 GMT
Total Posts: 623 | The day TI comes out with color is the day they start making PDA's. Color and graphing calculators just don't mix. (Grayscale is a different story though.)
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calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 9 Nov 2003
13:47 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Yeah, I guess you're right. But when do you think they'll stop improving the calc-never? Now?
Hey guys, what keys do you think TI should put on a new design of the calculator-if any?
Heres mine-I think they need a copy/paste button for prgm writing, on the Silver Edition. |
Digital
Guardian
Posted: 9 Nov 2003
18:32 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | That queston diserves a new thread. |
calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 9 Nov 2003
18:56 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Erh, yeah, I guess it does . . . . |
calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 9 Nov 2003
18:59 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Took your advice. |
spiral
Wraith
Posted: 9 Nov 2003
22:48 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | About TI pda/calculators. I believe TI has designed at least one pda (it was a concept model for their chips, which integrate wireless technologies), the Tungsten T/T2, Zire 71, Zire 21, and Tungsten E all use TI chips i thi nk. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 10 Nov 2003
17:39 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | yes, they use TI's OMAP ARM based processors. which are in fact pretty good.
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Momen Soudan
Marine
Posted: 28 Nov 2003
20:46 GMT
Total Posts: 34 | Color?it will be great..
it will be not any normal kind of calculator!..
we will call it:TI-83 COLOR EDITION! :D
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Billy
Ultralisk
Posted: 29 Nov 2003
08:40 GMT
Total Posts: 260 | Color display on a calculator is a horrible idea. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 29 Nov 2003
19:37 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | yep, prices already a tad high. besides, let calcs be calcs and pda's be pda's. if you need a gameboy or pda, just get one. color calc (i;m not counting the color casio calc since it only has like 3 or 4 colors) will not be out for some time and when it will, chances are it'll be pretty expensive unless devs can price one in about $150 or so price. Even at that price not that many people will buy one. So, I basically agree with what Billy said above.
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dysfunction
Goliath
Posted: 4 Dec 2003
15:50 GMT
Total Posts: 122 | Actually, ther is a program that displays moving blue lines. But that can screw up your lcd. There's another program that is pong, but with a yellow paddle and ball and a dark blue background, which has no bad effects so far as I've noticed. Did you guys see that fae news item on ticalc.org about a Voyage 400? They said it would have 1.4 mb RAM, 15 mb RAM, a 33mhz processor, and a 256 color screen. They even had a Photoshopped picture of it. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 4 Dec 2003
15:53 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | That pic looked really fake. Besides, for something like that TI would probably charge way more than $200. For that price its best to get a pda and download a graphing program. Either way, you wouldn't be allowed a calc with a qwerty keyboard in school or college (in most cases).
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Digital
Guardian
Posted: 5 Dec 2003
12:43 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | Too true. I guess thats why they call it a PLT... |
dysfunction
Goliath
Posted: 8 Dec 2003
15:24 GMT
Total Posts: 122 | Calculatorfreak, why do you change your vatar like every day? BTW, Timeline was a crappy movie. The book was much better. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 8 Dec 2003
17:11 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Yeah, that movie kinda sucked. As with calcfreak's avatar, I guess he just can't find one he like enough. Oh well...
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spiral
Wraith
Posted: 8 Dec 2003
17:27 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | he uses avatars from google image search...so it's ez to change icons. I read the Timeline book, it was pretty interesting. |
Momen Soudan
Marine
Posted: 28 Dec 2003
10:50 GMT
Total Posts: 34 | Hey guys,What is the difference between Voyage and TI?
What Voyage is for anyway?
What dose it do? :beer: |
spiral
Wraith
Posted: 28 Dec 2003
23:37 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | Voyage is a TI calculator, it's the TI Voyage 200. It's similar to the 89 and 92+, just another graphing calculator, it has a qwerty keyboard (similar to computer), more rom than the 83+ se, larger screen than the 83 series.
Btw, avoid reviving old topics, especially with offtopics post (such as your question). Just make a new topic. |
dysfunction
Goliath
Posted: 29 Dec 2003
12:27 GMT
Total Posts: 122 | 20x128 pixel screen. Larger than the 89's, too. There's basically no difference between the 92+ and Vpyage 200, just the 200 has more memory and a faster processor. All the 68k calcs are pretty similar. |
Ray Kremer
Ultralisk
Posted: 31 Dec 2003
10:44 GMT
Total Posts: 310 | It's a rebranding. Under the old naming convention it would have been the TI-92 Plus Silver Edition or some such thing, but the marketing people got it in their heads that they needed to preemptively compete with PDAs in the classroom, so they made pretend that it was an entirely new device. "Not just for math anymore", "Personal Learning Tool", and all that, even though it's completely silly. To complete the illusion that the new calculator wasn't anything like its predecessors, it got a new name (especially important since the name is the only thing most people pay attention to anyway). "Voyage" since it sounds more profound I guess, and "200" is a nice round and large number. |
