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Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« on: August 21, 2011, 12:21:51 am »
Our fellow forum member JosJuice have reported about changes on Texas Instruments' calculator comparison chart on their website, located in the Student Zone. It appears that their entire graphing calculator line, from the TI-83 Plus to the TI-Nspire, passing by the TI-89 Titanium, is being redesigned, and that even the technical specifications such as RAM and Archive will change, such as the TI-Nspire CX dropping from 100 MB of RAM to 20.

As you can see below or directly on their website (as of tonight), the changes are very drastic!



It definitively seems that they are trying to improve their offer for customers, so that their various calculators satisfy student and teacher's needs even more. A TI-84 Plus Silver Edition with 20 MB of RAM and 16 MB of archive, assuming it still uses the same processor despite this complete re-design, definitively sounds interesting! Hopefully we hear more about those changes soon!

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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2011, 12:33:58 am »
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God damn man, you fucked your shit up
They really confused the models there...

But this is interesting.
If TI is changing their marketing, it could mean a shift in where they want to take the company,
Maybe a new line of calculators ?
Maybe more love for the calc development community :)?

All of the above is just dreams, they probably just got bored and redid a small part of their website.

/speculations

Not that I actually now which is the 83/84/89, but:
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2011, 12:39:18 am »
I do want an 84+ with 20MB of ram :D
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am »
Hahaha interesting :P

Spoiler For Spoiler:
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2011, 12:49:04 am »
Quote from: Juju on August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2011, 12:52:19 am »
Quote from: DJ_O on August 21, 2011, 12:49:04 am
Quote from: Juju on August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

Damnit!
Anyway, how long has that page really been like this ?
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2011, 12:55:51 am »
JosJuice noticed it yersterday and posted about it in this thread: http://ourl.ca/12635

But I don't know if it was like that for a long while. Given that the CX was out for a while, I'm starting to wonder if it wasn't like that since its release.
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2011, 02:26:04 am »
Anyone else notice that the CX on the left is the only one labeled correctly?

Actually, that's a CAS looking closely.  Awesomeness.
* Darl181 pulls out a TI-83 Titanium CAS with Touchpad

EDIT: and the school bookroom lends out CXes!  Yayy
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2011, 04:01:12 am »
IF pictures was the only problem it would be fine ... but the caracteristics are also cheated even if we replace each model to its place...
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2011, 07:20:29 am »
Oooh TI, you so funny
Too bad they probably didn't do this on purpose..
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2011, 07:32:59 am »
Everybody knows that they want their older product lines die as soon as possible... but they didn't _have_ to wrongfully indicate that the 89T does not do 3D graphing, that the TI-68k and TI-Z80 series does not contain preloaded applications, or that the 89T cannot do split screen (not up to 4-way, but 2-way - so they ought to have made this line contain numeric values, if they were honest)...
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2011, 07:51:46 am »
hehe.. glad 2 c some fake news again DJ :P they were always interesting
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2011, 10:45:37 am »
Quote from: willrandship on August 21, 2011, 12:39:18 am
I do want an 84+ with 20MB of ram :D

me too :D
Quote from: DJ_O on August 21, 2011, 12:49:04 am
Quote from: Juju on August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O

O.O epic fail ti epic fail
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2011, 10:49:35 am »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on August 21, 2011, 07:32:59 am
Everybody knows that they want their older product lines die as soon as possible... but they didn't _have_ to wrongfully indicate that the 89T does not do 3D graphing, that the TI-68k and TI-Z80 series does not contain preloaded applications, or that the 89T cannot do split screen (not up to 4-way, but 2-way - so they ought to have made this line contain numeric values, if they were honest)...
>big corporations
>honest
Nope :-\
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Re: Texas Instruments redesigns entire graphing calculator line
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2011, 10:58:36 am »
Quote from: DJ_O on August 21, 2011, 12:49:04 am
Quote from: Juju on August 21, 2011, 12:43:32 am
(note that yellowish text is fake for the newbies)
(This :P)

On a more serious note where is the Voyage 200?? O.O
What ever happened to the 200? Of all the older calcs, the 89 ti and the 200 are my favorite, though I have neither.
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