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The TI-84 CE has a color screen, faster processor, lithium battery, and a proprietary charging cable.
"i love proprietary charging cables." -said no customer ever.
My TI-84+ CSE (curvy shape with colour screen) came with a rechargeable battery and mini-USB B... did they really go backwards with that?
Tbh the Casio Fx991 got way more mileage than the Ti84 in my engineering studies.
It might be mini-usb, but that's just as inconvenient.
Runs doom tho.
The memories, I still have 2 in the garage. People actually still pay $100 for these?
Yep! In some countries, TI have lobbied their way into the school system in order to make their products mandatory for tests and exams. They are then free to charge the same amount of money for a 27 year old design
What a seriously depressing thing to hear, but I canβt say itβs surprising anymore.
It's silly, but I think that this is just because any calculator that is more useful would also make cheating too easy and would also provide too much assistance. Teachers know what the TI-84 can and can't do, so they don't have to familiarize themselves with the risks of any new model. The price is ridiculous though, I'm quite sure that Texas Instruments makes a mighty profit on these things.
I loved the TI-84 when I was in highschool. Instead of doing whatever I was supposed to do, I was programming silly things on the calculator. It had quite some programming functionality, and I constantly kept finding new and interesting things to do with it. It played a part in me studying computer science, which the teachers recommended me to do because I was constantly programming on the calculator. I still have it, though I currently don't have any batteries for it.
Whoever made this meme...
Whoever has the same love for a TI-84 like I do...
You are me.
My TI-84, that I've had for about 18 years, died last month. I haven't been the same since.
sorry for your loss
Screw the TI-80 series! All my homies love the TI-30X IIS!
I still use mine for random calculations. Goated
Tis a good calculator. :)
Pfff. None of them hold a candle to the TI Voyage 200.
Not allowed for standardized tests because it has a QWERTY keyboard.
TI-89 is (or at least, was back when I was in high school) the best you could do.
I seem to remember a similar model but it did a bunch of probability stuff like choose nCr and permutation.
I liked that so much better than the ti80. Was just quicker to use.
I remember figuring out how to use math to draw boobs on my graphing calculator
You've awoken a strong yearning for my forgotten love. I shall seek my 83+ from the early 2000's rockin MirageOS and Falldown.
HP48GX for life! REPL was so powerful.
It might be powerful and all, but you know you're dealing with a real OG when someone pulls out an early version of the HP-12C.
HP really knew how to make buttons. Shame the company has gone to shit. You couldn't go wrong buying an HP printer in the 90s and 00s. Now they're the absolute worst.
Casio Classpad 300 be ballin'. You did math, I played Tetris.
Nah fuck that, the TI nspire CX II CAS is my ride or die.
I've never had one. Parents never could justify spending 100+ on a calculator.
I meanβ¦ thatβs fair