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TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color
skade88 writes "Do you remember those large TI-8X line of calculators with a BW display from when you were growing up and learning all about math? Yeah well, you can still get them because TI has yet to update or change their line of TI-8X calculators from their 96x64 display, processors designed in the 1980s with just a few kilobytes of user accessible memory. They still cost in the $100.00 to $150.00 range. That is all about to change now that the TI-8X line of calculators is 22 years old. Their new TI-84+C-Silver edition will come with a 320x240 16-bit color display, 3.5MB of flash ROM, and 21KB of RAM. Ars has a good preview of the device along with speculation on why it took so so so very long for TI to finally bring calculators up to a level of technology that could have been delivered a decade ago."Last month some photos and a few details of the new TI-84+C were leaked.
I haven't paid any attention to the calculator market recently, but TI is still around? When I was in high school the TI-30 came out, and almost everyone had one, because it was $2 cheaper than a National Semiconductor equivalent and $20 cheaper than an HP. So that's what everybody's mom bought them. They were/are such crap that I have seen more than one of them thrown across the room into a cinder block wall because the keys didn't register correctly, either missing keystrokes or repeating keys. A guy at work had one - a new one that looked like it was made by Fisher-Price, I tried using it the other day, and it *still* frequently missed keystrokes and repeating. He had another, bigger one that may have been some model of the TI-84, and it did the same damn thing. And it's still fucking algebraic, for God's sake, you have to write out equations like you are still in elementary school.
Just get an HP like a grown-up and move on with your life.