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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2010, 08:51:52 pm »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on October 08, 2010, 08:50:41 pm
It's going to be sold for $129.00 USD, which isn't too far off from the 84+ and about equivalent to the 84+ SE. But TI is discontinuing the whole line, so the Casio Prizm will be competing only with the nSpire and it is a few dollars cheaper than it. That's ignoring the obvious discrepancy in features between the Prizm and the nSpire.

No they're not going to discontinue the 84s, thankfully. But if it really is $129, then TI's just about screwed...
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #46 on: October 08, 2010, 08:52:36 pm »
Nah TI is not discontinuing the whole line. If you read in the latest pages of the 84+ topic, you'll see that it is only in Germany and Swiss, as well as a few other european countries. However, if TI decides to change their mind and discontinue it everywhere in a near future, they're pretty much screwed.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #47 on: October 08, 2010, 08:58:51 pm »
They're not discontinuing the 84+ family? Good. I like them.

Anyway, according to Casio's official press release:

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PRIZM™ will be available in January 2011 with an MSRP of $129.99.

Yep, TI's going to take a hit in the market if they can't keep the teachers. Of course, their ten billion dollar market in Semiconductor manufacturing is large enough in comparison that they probably won't care much.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #48 on: October 08, 2010, 08:59:22 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 08, 2010, 08:52:36 pm
Nah TI is not discontinuing the whole line. If you read in the latest pages of the 84+ topic, you'll see that it is only in Germany and Swiss, as well as a few other european countries. However, if TI decides to change their mind and discontinue it everywhere in a near future, they're pretty much screwed.

Or if they try to keep selling the 84 series at the current price.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #49 on: October 08, 2010, 09:02:06 pm »
I hope it gets sold over here. Else, I guess I'll have to use Ebay.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #50 on: October 08, 2010, 10:53:50 pm »
Referring to the promotional video for the Prizm, I actually like the way that the older classroom looks compared to the newer classroom; the wooden chairs and blackboard seem to have more character about them. Regardless, though, this looks like it is going to be an amazing device. I want one!
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #51 on: October 08, 2010, 10:58:20 pm »
Speaking of schools, teachers would probably confiscate them...they might look too high-tech (to the teacher).
If the 84PSE is really discontinued (which looks like it isn't), I would save for one of these.  It looks awesome.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #52 on: October 08, 2010, 11:51:52 pm »
I also like how on the ad there's a TI-Nspire on the teacher desk ;D
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #53 on: October 09, 2010, 12:57:22 am »
ooh very nice, it really looks like a smartphone. i guess this is a big step up from the 3 colour 9850 and 9950 calcs that Casio released quite a few years back. does it have lots of features from the 9860 for eg? or any compatibility.
i guess teachers would think it was a smartphone at first glance...
this is actually a really good way to mock the TI-nspire!!! rotf ;D for ti's actions at limiting such a calc that had potential!
saying that TI-nspire is old fashioned and the new fashion is the Prizm and it actually turns into a prism..

really good ad! kucalc!
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #54 on: October 09, 2010, 01:15:19 am »
Not sure about features and processor so far.

The only disappointment is that it only has 61 KB of RAM (although at least it got 16 MB of archive)
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #55 on: October 09, 2010, 01:29:09 am »
61kb? what? does that mean it has less than a 9950? (64kb ram) only 61kb of space for programs?
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #56 on: October 09, 2010, 01:52:35 am »
Don't expect TI to lower prices anytime soon -- unless this Prizm starts encroaching into TI's market share.

The Prizm is an awesome looking calculator. Finally a calc with a backlit color screen. 61Kb of RAM really? It is going to need 162Kb if video RAM just to display a full screen picture.

Looks like TI is going to have to play catch up. I wonder what their response will be.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #57 on: October 09, 2010, 02:01:10 am »
Yeah, the RAM seems really low. Maybe it's just user RAM and there's more for hardware/video, though. I wouldn't be surprised if there were hidden RAM pages. I really wonder what processor is there in that and I SERIOUSLY hope it has good programming capabilities.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #58 on: October 09, 2010, 05:41:12 am »
it definitely should. Casio hasn't let down users in its programming language like TI has for the TI-nspire. if it didn't then why would they have a TI-nspire in an old classroom and then the Prizm in the new one? surely they wanted to differentiate between the two.
Still, there might be a chance that it displays pictures, graphs, shapes but no programming, i really hope Casio doesn't go down that path, similiar to the path that TI took
Well, i am worried about the RAM, the current calc the 9860 at least had MBs of RAM
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #59 on: October 09, 2010, 11:47:29 am »
Wow, that looks wonderful.  I can't wait for this to come out.  I believe the first program that needs to be written for it is a full 83+/84+(SE) emulator. ;D

Nice find kucalc. :D
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