Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

I have been using a TI-89 for a long time now, after moving from a TI-83 in High School. In the process of moving I have misplaced my actual calculator but I keep an emulator on my computer that serves me well. Like many said you will probably not be able to use it on basic calc courses but it will be a tool that you will be able to use forever.

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

I just ordered the HP 50G on Newegg, I hope I can learn RPN. I like the HP50G more cause its the underdog, Im not a conformist like the rest of my school LOL. Plus you can program in C, a major plus. And I heard once you go RPN, you can never go back


edit: plus it was cheaper :)

Also that... I was seriously considering to write a program to graph polynomial graphs for me but I then realized that I can't take my PC to class and if I did, Wolfram Alpha would have been 10x better


edit of an edit: I just looked at the RPN manual... Its not complicated at all... LOL Its what I usually do with my regular calculator, just the operation is after the number

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

So your primary factor in calculator choice was "nonconformity" rather than features and test legality? Blind non-conformity misses the entire point of not conforming; the idea of non-conformity is skepticism with regards to why something is popular and used a lot, not continuous rejection. Sometimes there's a reason everyone buys the same calculator...

RPN gets a bit less intuitive at first when you add in more than one operation and stuff, but it's faster and stuff. It's not just "put the symbol last".

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

Yea yea yea, I checked the test legalities, its legal for all the tests I am planning to take and more so its fine. HP 50G is programmed in C so thats positive over TIs' BASIC IMHO.


bottom line: Im not regretting buying the HP 50G, it may look more archaic compared to TI 89, but it wass $40 cheaper

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

I got the HP50G in my mail yesterday and I had the opportunity to use it today during school, its amazing. Simple as that. It is faster than the TIs that my friends have, in fact it can handle huge exponents that would be buffer overflow for the TI. Not that I am going to use that big or small of numbers anytime soon, its great to know that it can do it. One of my favorite function if the Problem/Equation Solver. I just type in the equation (which I can save into memory) and fill in the variables and it solves the missing variable for me! Now thats really useful in my AP Physics class. Comes with a great carrying case too! Now that expediated my homework 50% (some arbituary number, but its significantly faster). I got in the hang of the RPN, I love it, I don't even have to retype the number, I can just do the memory stuff then voala! Yes not very descripive, but the bottom line is that HP50G > TI 84 SE and TI 89 Titanium...

and sorry for double post, I can't edit posts after a day or something

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

It's good to know that the HP models have retained the features that make them great little tools.

Blake

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

The TI-89 can do both algebraic and numerical equation solving as well. They're rather equivalent.

Re: TI-89 Titanium or HP 50G?
 

But it doesn't have RPN...

EDIT: I'm pretty sure about that - I haven't looked at the specs in a while...