I can see why it would make sense to retire the Silver Edition and not the regular calc from a business standpoint. It's a more expensive 84+ with more memory- that's it. The only person who's going to be interested in that is someone who either is buying the calc for development/gaming (like I would be)... or someone fooled by advertising.

And, if TI's desperate to cut costs (as we saw with the RAM pages incident), they probably would want to scrap a calc with extra memory for cheaper assembly.

I have a question though, who put "84+SE" instead of "84+ Silver Edition" in their emails? That might have something to do with the differences.

I did. Hmm...

I can see why it would make sense to retire the Silver Edition and not the regular calc from a business standpoint. It's a more expensive 84+ with more memory- that's it. The only person who's going to be interested in that is someone who either is buying the calc for development/gaming (like I would be)... or someone fooled by advertising.

And, if TI's desperate to cut costs (as we saw with the RAM pages incident), they probably would want to scrap a calc with extra memory for cheaper assembly.

Still, that doesn't explain the Nspire, TI would get much more profit from 84SEs than Nspires.  Maybe SEs are limited Editions that are actually limited, unlike our peanuts?  

I wouldn't be surprised if he was just uninformed. From the online TI store 84+SE link:

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IPL: Item 84PLSE/CLM/1L1/W and uom EA not on pricelist USA SRP

Also, maybe they are simply selling the rest of their supplies in USA? That said, maybe they decided to just discontinue the calc in some countries, but if that was the case, I doubt they would mention that production has stopped on those sites...

And Yunhua98 I don't think it matters. Being nice did not make things much better either. I doubt a company will stop producing z80 calcs just because a group of 300-600 users is angry at them for locking down the TI-Nspire.

They should start hiring reps who actually know what's going on

Not anticipated but understandable, as Iambian said much earlier in the thread.
Oh well... at least the 84+ and 83+ aren't going anywhere soon.

And, unfortunately, locked-down Nspires as well. At least they have pretty good math features.

I still don't think the Nspire is that great with math features.

First of all, it is much more confusing to use than the z80/68k calcs.  I know people who have extreme trouble figuring out how to use an 84. I could only imagine seeing them use an Nspire...

Secondly, looking through the catalog of functions on the Nspire, there is really not too much differences when compared to a z80/68k calc (Nspire CAS compared to the 68ks, Nspire (non cas) compared to the z80).  Programs/Apps (even those published by TI) add almost all of the missing functions.  We can get apps to do spreadsheets, notes on these calcs, right?  Everything else can be accessed through apps/programs.

The Nspire CAS  has all of the same bugs that are present in the 68k CAS (I have tested).  In reality, the Nspire is not a revolutionary new calculator, it is mearly a collection of old TI-written functions with stuff written by other companies that is already present for the other calcs (TI did not write that data app for the Nspire...).

apcalc is correct...

the Nspire is only good for GBC and NES emus

To be honest, I have only used my Nspire for GBC, NES and the spreadsheets to keep track of my grades this year in school.  Still haven't used it in math.

I mean, really?! 15mhz compared to 90mhz

I believe the Nspires can go up to 150mhz.