I wouldn't mind getting one of these as a present. Hint-hint...
Are there an annoying downgrades compared to the original Ti-84+ se?

It looks very cute! /me wants
Does it have a slide-case as well?

It looks very cute! /me wants
Does it have a slide-case as well?

Nope, since it's not made for any slidecase. It does come withe a fake-leather cover thing

Oh, better than nothing. Also how much do these 'goodies' costs?

Sure I'll try


Also @TBE_Young : the HW is exactly the same as a 84+SE

Wow the calc looks really small, now that I see a real pic of it besides other calcs. That makes me wish we had that in hi school back then, so it would have been less annoying to carry in my pocket.

What does the cover look like?  Is it just like some sort of pouch?

Edit: nvm http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?image_id=676

Very nice! An interesting question is if it, like the 84+ Pocket, is unable to swap RAM into $4000-$7FFF via port $06. Unfortunately, I think that would be a yes. Can you test that? (It's pretty simple; I or various others could tell you how.) I take it that it has boot code version 1.03 and the OS is 2.55MP?

I really want to see this for myself. It's a change that just seems totally unjustifiable, for it seems that the money that TI paid to an engineer to make the change would be more than the money TI could ever hope to save.

Anyway, it's almost certainly the case that the SE and non-SE have completely identical PCBs, except for the flash chip. On the non-pocket models, the boot code has to inform the ASIC which model calculator you are so the ASIC knows which sectors to block writes/erases to.