Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 17, 2010, 04:49:47 pm

it's cool to be able to see the screen when selecting menu options.

That's why TI-85/86 menus were great!

Yeah. On the 83+ series, the menus sometimes get even more confusing than on Windows (and most of us have tried navigating, say, the Edit menu on certain programs ), but at least you can get used to them (or find a shortcut like 2ND+[CATALOG]+T+[UP]+[UP]), and it displays them in a way that you can scroll in easily. Displaying three entries per screen was a very, very bad idea.

Yeah, I agree with DJ, the CATALOG is the best way for me to find commands

Yeah true, those are all on the keypad lol.

A lot of people say the 83+ is quite user-friendly compared to a lot of other calcs that aren't 85/86, but of course if you are a Casio fan you migth think otherwise. A lot of people prefered the 85/86 way of doing menus. I personally don't like them much because I find them hard to navigate but it's cool to be able to see the screen when selecting menu options.

I don't know. If a friend of mine were to ask advice for which graphing calculator to buy and he'd only use it for graphing and he has no interest in downloading any programs from the internet I probably would recommended the Casio. And that's saying alot since I'm pretty much a TI 84+ fanboy 

Say he wants to draw a function and he has no prior knowledge of both calculators.

On the Casio he would have some sort of menuscreen, go to Graph, enter the function and press draw.

On the TI 84+ he would have to know that the equations screen is accessed by pressing "Y=" and then he would have to press "GRAPH". With other words he should've read the manual. This might be common sense but meh there probably alot of slackers out there that don't bother to read it unless they really have a problem. I was one of them. I just mashed some buttons till I got what I wanted.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 17, 2010, 04:49:47 pm

A lot of people say the 83+ is quite user-friendly compared to a lot of other calcs that aren't 85/86, but of course if you are a Casio fan you migth think otherwise. A lot of people prefered the 85/86 way of doing menus. I personally don't like them much because I find them hard to navigate but it's cool to be able to see the screen when selecting menu options.

I don't know. If a friend of mine were to ask advice for which graphing calculator to buy and he'd only use it for graphing and he has no interest in downloading any programs from the internet I probably would recommended the Casio. And that's saying alot since I'm pretty much a TI 84+ fanboy 

Say he wants to draw a function and he has no prior knowledge of both calculators.

On the Casio he would have some sort of menuscreen, go to Graph, enter the function and press draw.

On the TI 84+ he would have to know that the equations screen is accessed by pressing "Y=" and then he would have to press "GRAPH". With other words he should've read the manual. This might be common sense but meh there probably alot of slackers out there that don't bother to read it unless they really have a problem. I was one of them. I just mashed some buttons till I got what I wanted.

Yeah, and I still remember middle school when everyone was stumped by the u(n) screen in Y=