So HP calculators have been … well not frequent. And from the perspective of a casual calculator user HP might as well not exist. If you wanna buy a new useful scientific calculator it’s TI or Casio and maybe sharp. However with the recent announcement that there would be a collectors edition re-release of the HP 15c it looks like the new owners of the HP calculator brand do care! Well at least a bit. So what do you think they will do next? Do you believe HP still has a great calculator in them? What would be your dream HP calculator?

  • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m not asking facetiously, what could a new calculator do better? I had one of those treasured 2000s-era TI- something’s graphing calculators. But left it with my ex because her kids were getting older. I was like, the kids will laugh but might need it for an SAT thing.

    Are the graphing calculators these days competitive with average smartphones? Why can’t I get a smartphone that is more like a graphing calculator?

    • snowfalldreamland@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Well i personally was more thinking non-graphing calculators. I personally feel once i want graphs and complex programs I’m better off using a laptop. I feel like when comparing the HP prime smartphone app and the real HP prime, then there is something to having physical buttons that does help.

      • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m not really a numbers guy, but tactile buttons for alphabets in an interface is also super cool. Aka mechanical keyboards or whatever.

        • DaSawEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I miss the slide-out keyboard on my last non-smart phone (probably back in 2009 or so).

      • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Never understood that either. I was not clever enough to program my calculator very much. But some of those calculators can run Doom.