Got mad at it today because I looked up prices on a whim and they've actually gone up in price since I was in high school lmao.

  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    TI’s cost for a calculator is about $20 and calculators represent such a minuscule portion of their revenue, they don’t even report them as a line item. They could drop the price to $30 tomorrow and still make a better margin than almost anyone else. But they’re shitty people riding the wave of decades of intense lobbying.

    (Critical support for the nSpire line, which has a great algebra and calculus solver, and runs a modern ARM platform, though, for the reasonable cost of $140.) I take it back. I just looked at the spec sheet and it still uses a fucking mini USB connector. What the fuck. Eat a dick, TI.

    • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      My n-spire CAS got me through some tough fucking times ngl. Unfortunately it's the only item I know that uses a mini USB instead of a micro like every other piece of consoomer electronics made this decade.

    • dpg [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      you can run emulators on the nSpire with hacks, pretty chill playing pokemon emerald in class.