Whats the big deal with the CX for education anyway? Math and science don't need a color screen or the ability to load photos. The gameboy emulator, on the other hand....

Nice big troll above here, mikehill2003...

Nintendo doesn't sell overpriced products. When the DS came out it was about $200 cheaper than the PSP here and the PSP remained above $200 for years until the PSPGo came out. Their Wii costed $279.99 on launch, while the 360 and PS3 costed about $700. Yes, Nintendo consoles are less powerful, but it's totally untrue that their stuff is overpriced. I think that status would go more for other console makers, especially Sony. TI, on the other hand, sells overpriced hardware.

Also, if you haven't noticed, the rest of the community wants more powerful hardware. Take a look at the interest for the Casio Prizm color calc: TI programmers bought one, something that would never have occured with their previous products, because to everyone, TI was better than Casio. I seriously don't understand why you are so much against a calc with a color screen when you use one mostly for programming and gaming, something where colors are more than welcome. That said, I agree that their products are locked down so much.

You should stop trying to start fights.

I don't think that's a sensible comparison to make.

The only time price/computing power ratio is a good metric to use when deciding what to buy is if you're putting together a supercomputing cluster.

For game systems, the value you get is not linear with CPU power or memory

- if you buy ten XBoxes, you have ten times the computing power, but can you really have ten times the fun with them?

I think the main issue is offer/demand. Nintendo has an history of selling their consoles cheaper on launch. I remember the N64 for example. However, since they become very popular their price won't drop as fast. I remember the 360 was like $300 cheaper 3 years after launch, and today the Wii only dropped by about $60 over here (compared to the launch price).

Maybe Nintendo has cheaper hardware for the price ratio, but it doesn't mean their consoles are bad. They're just for a different group of people.

However, something seems wrong with your image above: Where I live the 360 costed about $700 on launch, not $300. Was it really this cheap in USA when it came out?

I think TI is much more worse than Nintendo on the hardware/ratio point, and on the TI-Nspire, less freedom.

Also personally as much as I wish the CX screen was a lot larger, I would rather have it so it's small enough to allow the calc to fit in a pocket. I feel the TI-Nspire is too huge, compared to the Prizm.

Also, if the resolution was larger I would surely hope the text is still readable. If they decided to use a 720x480 LCD, but the entire text was 8 px fonts, it would hurt our eyes. I already find the text small enough on the Nspire Clickpad and the TI-89T.

Anyway I guess everyone got their opinions, but in your earlier comment, mikehill2003, it sounded like you were totally against a color screen and the way the rest was worded it seemed like you were against calc dev and thought they were reserved only for math.

We need to be careful about how we word stuff and also some people are more sensitive so if they arrive with a CX or a Prizm and you go tell them this calc is worthless because of the hardware they might think you are telling them they're worthless.

And one thing to remember is that Omnimaga doesn't welcome fanboyism towards consoles, OSes, browsers, languages, etc, so we have to be careful to make sure what we say doesn't sound like it comes from a fanboy.