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In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-colors dept.

KermMartian writes "In what seems to be an accelerating arms race for graphing calculator supremacy between Texas Instruments and Casio, the underdog Casio has fired a return salvo to the recently-announced TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition. The new ClassPad fx-CP400 has a massive color touchscreen and a Matlab-esque CAS. Though not accepted on the SAT/ACT, will such a powerful device gain a strong following among engineers and professionals?"

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  1. Re:MATLAB by ikaruga · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or at least Octave. MATLab is too expensive to put on a calculator and if you only want the programing language then Octave is more then enough.

  2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by ipquickly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Welcome to 2012 graphical calculators, nice of you to finally join us!

    The first Casio graphing calculator with color came out in 1996. CFX-9850
    I still have one somewhere.

    "500KB RAM to users; appears to have at least a 2-4MB RAM chip"

    I think this development puts the new calculators on par with PDA's from 2001. Just before the Treo hit the shelves.

    It's like re-living history.