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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #45 on: February 25, 2011, 09:05:37 pm »
I found this an easy to use calculator i don't see how others found this hard
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #46 on: February 25, 2011, 09:09:13 pm »
Quote from: ruler501 on February 25, 2011, 09:05:37 pm
I found this an easy to use calculator i don't see how others found this hard

A lot of my friends who got Nspires were immediately confused by the document system. Most people who use calculators for math expect math to be the first and only thing they see when they turn the calculator on, or at least a click away like on the TI-89. TI should have kept the document system separate as an actual editor IMO. It's like they meant for the Nspire to be a developer/teacher's calc and then left out the programming.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #47 on: February 25, 2011, 09:34:33 pm »
Can't wait for this to come out, but it might still be a while before people start putting it up on EBay for a way cheaper price. I might possibly get it for the full price, but does anyone know a cheaper way to get it? I mean way cheaper way, you can get TI-89 on ebay for like $50 if no one else bids on them.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #48 on: February 25, 2011, 09:57:34 pm »
I'll get mine on Ebay even at full price, unless it's over $200 including shipping to Canada. However, watch out for prototypes, if people leak them. We know what happened with regular TI-Nspire and CAS: prototypes could not be updated with official OSes. Sadly I do not know a cheaper way to get them.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #49 on: February 26, 2011, 02:51:34 am »
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Features a dedicated programming environment as well as programming libraries for global access to user-defined functions & programs
But does environment and programming libraries necessarily means BASIC commands such as Line(), pxl-on, Text(), Getkey and the like?
Definitely not.
The line found by broooom has neither explicit mention, nor explicit denial, of this system of libraries being limited to BASIC. But "programming libraries for global access to user-defined functions & programs" has been available for a while, and "dedicated programming environment" is very vague a wording.
It's not entirely impossible that TI gives up on their 5-year-old shut-the-door-to-programming stance, that said. But it's probably not likely :)

If OS 3.0 / the Nspire CX proves to have a better programming environment than the previous versions, I'll admit to have rained on the parade and dashed people's hopes (even though I usually mention that a change is never impossible). But until then, I do, because people shouldn't fall to TI's marketing campaign :)
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #50 on: February 26, 2011, 07:39:50 am »
Wow, 100MB storage and 64MB operating memory. How generous, I was not expecting this. Also; It appears that some units will ship with a slide cover and some will ship with a screen protector. I am also glad that this is being advertised as their thinnest design yet, very promising.

Quote from: broooom on February 25, 2011, 10:31:17 am
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Features a dedicated programming environment as well as programming libraries for global access to user-defined functions & programs
Very interesting.
Yea, this doesn't mean anything unfortunately. The previous Nspire models have the same exact description. And what do we have on those models? That's right! A shitty dumbed down version of BASIC. =(
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #51 on: February 26, 2011, 07:43:16 am »
one way we can protest to this new Nspire if it has crap programming abilities is everyone in the TI community rating it one star on Amazon and other online retailers, and put a detailed description why ;)  then TI will know not to mess with us, a 1 Star average rating with 100 reviews/rates will make them lose a LOT of money on this thing.  You see, Email isn't the only way to go ;)
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #52 on: February 26, 2011, 08:20:14 am »
haha DEVIOUS  :devil:

Umm I forgot where i bought mine at it was on one of ti's "official online retailers" though im pretty sure
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #53 on: February 26, 2011, 08:30:27 am »
We should warn TI we will do that if there is no programming environment and see what they do. We have plenty of members who own nspires because of nDoom. We could just post if you want a programming environment on your calc go rate the CX down and give detailed descriptions why. I believe that might be able to help.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #54 on: February 26, 2011, 08:41:04 am »
I doubt giving the new Nspire poor reviews because it lacks the programming capability to make decent games will change anyone's mind. Least of all TI's. It is a calculator first and foremost and it's primary function is to be able to carry out math functions with speed, precision, and ease of use. The primary userbase/ education community could care less if this thing is open to gamedev.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #55 on: February 26, 2011, 08:59:52 am »
there are plenty of math things you can do with the programming. It might do nothing I don't know. I just would realy like a non-hacking way for a programming environment.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #56 on: February 26, 2011, 09:40:19 am »
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on February 26, 2011, 07:39:50 am
Wow, 100MB storage and 64MB operating memory. How generous, I was not expecting this. Also; It appears that some units will ship with a slide cover and some will ship with a screen protector. I am also glad that this is being advertised as their thinnest design yet, very promising.

I like those specs :D I'm wondering how tall it is, though.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #57 on: February 26, 2011, 09:42:09 am »
Pocket sized I hope.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #58 on: February 26, 2011, 03:17:44 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on February 26, 2011, 09:40:19 am
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on February 26, 2011, 07:39:50 am
Wow, 100MB storage and 64MB operating memory. How generous, I was not expecting this. Also; It appears that some units will ship with a slide cover and some will ship with a screen protector. I am also glad that this is being advertised as their thinnest design yet, very promising.

I like those specs :D I'm wondering how tall it is, though.
I guess TI realized how much space their OSes took up :P I'm guessing it is really a 128mb flash chip, with 28mb reserved for the os. The 64mb of ram it comes with will sure be useful, though. I wonder if 3d graphing means it gets 3d rendering hardware?

Unlike the prizm, this seems to have a normal lcd display with backlight, so the battery life won't be that great.
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Re: Nspire CX Officially Announced by TI!
« Reply #59 on: February 26, 2011, 03:25:19 pm »
Quote from: fb39ca4 on February 26, 2011, 03:17:44 pm
I wonder if 3d graphing means it gets 3d rendering hardware?

and quite possibly might support a Form of OpenGL ^-^ just maybe
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