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Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-hue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As reported by hobbyist calculator programmers, Casio has recently unveiled new graphing calculator models, the Casio fx-CG10/20 series, less than a year after Texas Instruments released the TI-Nspire Touchpad. The calculators features a 65536 colors screen (16-bit) with a resolution of 384x216 pixels, 16 MB of Flash memory (10 available for the user) and 140 hours of battery life. The calculators will retail starting at $129.99. Although Casio's new calculator official page have limited information about the calculator programming capabilities and processor speed, could this eventually mark the end of TI's reign in North American schools?"

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  1. Obligatory xkcd reference by gspr · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/768/

    1. Re:Obligatory xkcd reference by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought of that too. Maybe XKCD has shamed calculator makers into actually trying. I'm imagining it now.

      "Lets see, time to check the webcomics... ...

      I... I didn't become an engineer for this! Where did the dream of making the worlds best calculator die?!? I thought I was going to change the world of handheld calculators, but then I tried skipping coffee and spending more time with the family... before I knew it we were asking ourselves 'Why fix what's not really that broken and that students have to buy anyway' rather than 'What new features can we cram into it?' I knew I had hit some type of bottom when I actually told schools they should just recycle their old calculators rather than buying new.

      That changes today. By God, I'm putting color on this motherfucker... FOR AMERICA!!!"

  2. Lame. by QuantumPion · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wireless. Less space than a TI. Lame.

  3. Re:Why? by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

    I learned 10x more from Civilization (and the research I did on my own making historically accurate start maps) than I learned from all of the history classes I took K-college. Probably logged more hours on it too.

    Same here. What really surprises me is all the lies they teach in school. None of the textbooks I had indicated that Genghis Khan became the ruler of the world, developed space technology, and colonized Alpha Centauri.

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