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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. Re:TI isn't going anywhere. by zalas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Casio already had a color calculator way back when I was in high school. The curriculum still revolved around the use of the TI-83, though, so people with anything else were pretty much on their own.

  2. Re:Why? by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 5, Informative

    What I don't get is why someone would spend $150 on a calculator when you could get a netbook with a gig of RAM and 180 gigs of drive space with a dual core processor for the price of two of them. Kubuntu comes with a scientific calculator, and it's a free OS you can replace Windows with or install dual-boot.

    I just don't know why anyone would buy a calculator, period.

    They don't allow laptops into most exam rooms. There has always been a lot of places which had restrictions on graphing calculators, and required you to have standard 8(?) function calculators, or they would wipe the internal memory in a few cases.

    It's probably why calculators didn't really improve much over the years, if you improved them, even if it lowered the cost, you would ironically reduce your potential market.

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  3. Re:Practical Applications? by AF_Cheddar_Head · · Score: 3, Informative

    Red-Green Color blind here.

    Purple doesn't exist and is a conspiracy against the colorblind. My daughter loves to pick out my shirts and I have at least four "blue shirts" that girls tell are lovely shades of purple.

    Brown is just a different shade of green.