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ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« on: April 02, 2012, 12:27:26 pm »
This was quite recent too  :o (only yesterday infact!)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/01/texas-instruments-ti-83-plus-review/

lol I don't know why they just decided to randomly review the 83 plus but here it is folks  ;D

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Half of this review is an obvious tongue-in-cheek approach to dealing with April Fool's Day, but I'm dead serious when I say that the continued "necessity" for the TI-83 in America's education system is as glaring an example as any of just how behind we are.

oh.. :P
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 02:59:51 pm »
I hate how TI has a total monopoly over the calculator industry. The TI83 is simply not worth the 90 bucks, yet almost literally everybody is required to buy one. Sidenote: This guy thinks Tetris is fun? He should see some of the other calc games.
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 03:37:57 pm »
someone needs to purchase this fellow a linking cable and point him towards ticalc.
* shmibs is sensing a potential follow-up article. :P
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 05:16:15 pm »
Quote from: boot2490 on April 02, 2012, 02:59:51 pm
I hate how TI has a total monopoly over the calculator industry. The TI83 is simply not worth the 90 bucks, yet almost literally everybody is required to buy one. Sidenote: This guy thinks Tetris is fun? He should see some of the other calc games.
It is fun, great classic too. But yeah we are in 2012 now, not 1999, so programming has evolved, allowing much better games to be made.

Btw Engadget reviewed like 20 electronic things yesterday, even a cellphone from the '90s.
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 08:14:59 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 05:16:15 pm
Btw Engadget reviewed like 20 electronic things yesterday, even a cellphone from the '90s.
Nokia?

I've noticed a few people going on a comment replying rampage on that article *cough*me and Kerm*cough* :P
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 08:16:55 pm »
Yeah I think it was that one. it felt weird to see a monochrome screen phone again. And lol
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 08:23:58 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 08:16:55 pm
Yeah I think it was that one. it felt weird to see a monochrome screen phone again. And lol
That thing is indestructible...
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 08:38:26 pm »
What do you mean? ???
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 08:38:50 pm »
I think he meant to type "thing" instead of "think"
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 08:42:08 pm »
Ah maybe. And yeah some of the older stuff is much more resistant than new stuff. Take for example the Nintendo 64 or the SNES and compare it to the Playstation 2. NES is more destructible but it lasts years lol.

Today they make electronics purposely break after a few years of use, to make people buy new ones.
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2012, 09:13:57 pm »
Quote from: TBO_Yeong on April 02, 2012, 08:38:50 pm
I think he meant to type "thing" instead of "think"
Exactly lol
Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 08:42:08 pm
Ah maybe. And yeah some of the older stuff is much more resistant than new stuff. Take for example the Nintendo 64 or the SNES and compare it to the Playstation 2. NES is more destructible but it lasts years lol.

Today they make electronics purposely break after a few years of use, to make people buy new ones.

<3 Nokia :P
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2012, 09:14:47 pm »
I lol'd XD

I hated how old stuff was so heavy, though. My mom's fridge could not even be moved at all and when we tried to, it destroyed the floor.
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2012, 09:31:08 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 09:14:47 pm
I lol'd XD

I hated how old stuff was so heavy, though. My mom's fridge could not even be moved at all and when we tried to, it destroyed the floor.
They may have been heavy but they were made to last :P
I miss that about old tech....they actually weren't made as cheap as possible so they wouldn't break that easy ( Case and point; my laptop's motherboard died and it's not even a year old ).
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2012, 09:32:29 pm »
IIRC, my GameCube was really durable. :D
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Re: ti 83+.. reviewed on engadget?
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2012, 09:33:34 pm »
Yeah, or see my Intel Core i7 computer a few weeks ago. I only had it for 2 years and the video card already got fried.

Btw was that pic above in reference to how Nokia phones got used to hide bombs for terrorist attacks or something?
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