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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2010, 11:01:39 pm »
*checks TI site in hope that it went back*
Wow, the price is still obscene...I'm wondering if this is like the "84PSE discontinued" thing, where there was only a change in some countries.
I honestly would not be surprised if Ti-Cares has no idea of it... :P

Or..."it's a feature"
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2010, 11:14:42 pm »
Well, they changed their site design recently. Either there's an error or they're really trying to get people to buy other calc models more.

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2010, 07:57:22 am »
They're still high...
I got my 84+SE for less than they're selling the 83+ for. x.x
If it's not an error, it's most definitely a move by marketing for what someone (Deep Thought, I think?) said on the last page.
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2010, 10:01:28 am »
I hope the Casio Prizm will be popular enough to affect TI sales, so prices go down.
I hope you're right. I'm in the market for a new calc myself, my 84+SE is getting progressively more unstable :(
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2010, 11:11:54 am »
I would love a Prizm if it supports asm. If not, I'll just stay with the nspire, It'll get support faster anyways.

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #35 on: November 09, 2010, 12:35:15 pm »
I'M most likely getting one even if it has no ASM support, just to see what the BASIC on it can do and I am sure someone will attempt to jailbreak it, anyway, now that the Casio community was teased with ASM support on previous models. Plus it seems popular among the TI community, even if it's not a TI calc. I still wonder how fast BASIC will be on it, though, and what processor does it have...

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2010, 05:08:25 pm »
Well, PRIZM looks like a toy right now. CASIO does not even say what CPU is there!

While screen certainly looks more pleasing then NSpire the software side is superweak. As for "someone will attempt to jailbreak it"... well, PS3 jailbreak took almost four years while Wii was broken in days so it's hard to predict the outcome in advance. We'll see, I guess.

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2010, 08:23:17 pm »
Yeah I wish they said what CPU was in there. That said, is the software really that limited? Have you checked the instruction guide?

From what I am noticing, they just want it to look more attractive to users than black and white screens and old skool calculator designs like the TI-Nspire, in this day of iPhones and Blackberries.

However, if the software is too limited for maths, it will most likely not sell very well, no matter if it has a 100 MHz processor or not.

As for jailbreaking, this is if we even need to jailbreak it at all.

THis is the Prizm user guide, by the way: http://edu.casio.com/products/cg_series/data/fxcg10_20_E.pdf
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2010, 08:29:41 pm »
shows how cheap casio is compared!!!!  and still has nice features! man the prices, so expensive...
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2010, 08:30:57 pm »
Wow, the user guide's out already! No specs, though...




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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #40 on: November 17, 2010, 03:16:22 am »
shows how cheap casio is compared!!!!  and still has nice features! man the prices, so expensive...
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Welcome back! And yeah, older Casio had much less features than TI calcs but the newer ones added a few more stuff. I hope the Prizm is on par with TI for math functions so it sells well enough.
Wow, the user guide's out already! No specs, though...
Yeah Qwerty.55 posted it in the Casio BASIC thread so I thought I would share here and the other topic. Notice that unlike the Nspire, the Prizm got an actual Getkey function...

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #41 on: October 16, 2011, 12:50:53 am »
What the fudge Staples? O.O

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_class.asp?CatIds=66,110&name=CA%5FCL%5FGraphing+Calculators

TI-Nspire Touchpad - $184.82
TI-Nspire CAS Touchpad - $159.99

Or is it because the regular one has 84+ emulation? ???

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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #42 on: November 14, 2012, 05:03:05 pm »
Ok Staples seems to have dropped some prices in Canada now (at least online. They no longer appeared to provide anymore graphing calcs other than the 83+ the last time I checked at the local store). Here are the prices of their online store below, with the ones that decreased in green and the ones that increased in red:

83+ $124.96 (comes with Français app but it's still the american model, not the French one)
84+ $142.83 ~$5 decrease
84+SE $179.82 ~$3 increase (not a good news for when the color model comes out)
89T: $188.92 (about the same)
TI-Nspire Touchpad: $184.82 (about the same)
TI-Nspire CX: $174.84 ~$20 decrease (that must be a sale for sure, or a mistake)
TI-Nspire CAS Touchpad: $179.92 ~$10 decrease (Out of stock, most likely a mistake too, can't be a sale since it has been out of stock for 2 years)
TI-Nspire CX CAS: $199.99 (Out of stock since one year)
Casio PRIZM: $129.96 ~$20 decrease


What I saw IRL:

Walmart:
TI-83+: $139.99 (always out of stock it seems)
TI-84+: $159.99 ~$10 decrease (fail)

Zellers:
TI-83+ $69.99 ~$70 decrease (Out-of-business sale so that doesn't really count, seems out of stock now)

The Source (the last vestiges of Circuit City):
TI-83+ $139.99

Staples:
NO MORE GRAPHING CALCS IN STOCK????

Best Buy:
TI-83+ $129.99

Just thought I would give a small update. To me it seems that certain prices might have dropped based on the currency exchange rate, but our dollar has been on par with USD for almost 3 years now. The 84+SE price is kinda worrying because if it's that expensive, then that means the color SE calc will most likely cost $184.99 or something...
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #43 on: November 14, 2012, 06:05:37 pm »
But... Why would you buy a slow calc like the TI84+ C SE from a consumers point of view if you can get a much more powerful nspire for the same price???
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Re: Calc prices on TI website... something wrong?
« Reply #44 on: November 14, 2012, 06:08:50 pm »
Because the teacher said you can't use an Nspire. Remember, although students buy graphing calculators, it's teachers that they advertise to. (Which means that free market economics doesn't apply to graphing calculators, which is why they're overpriced.)
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