This morning, I went into our tech office and lo and behold was the employee. Before I begin, thank you for all your help in making this possible. Let's begin!

me: Hello, I heard you work with TI, is this true?
Person: No, I don't work with TI, but I work very close to them. I freelance for them and do stuff with them.

Me: OK, in that case, may I see the new calculator?

[Person pulls out new Nspire CX out of his gym bag, still bubble wrapped]

Me: ah very nice. Very nice indeed [explores it a little, goes to documents folder first thing but finding many documents so I exited]. Now does this have any new programming capabilities?

Person: No, it does not any have new capabilities from the current generation Nspire, it only has basic programming functions to solve mathematical equations. There are about only 300 people that work in the educational division of TI, so they were trying to mainly push out the 3D capabilities and the color screen mostly, so the programming was not changed in the new calculator. Sorry about that.

Me: Do you think that there will be any plans for future calculator programming on these?

Person: No, there are no plans to give any additional programming functions as far as I am aware. And I know there are many people that care about gaming and that stuff...
 
Me: definitely

Person: ...but really the teachers don't really care about programming capabilities. TI is always trying to improve their calculators, but this one will mainly focus on graphing and color. Perhaps next time..

Me: So the teachers are the ones that are influencing the direction of this?

Person: Yeah. The main thing is getting what the teachers want and that is our main business.

Me: OK, well in the future, will the support for these calculators (I point to a crate of Nspire CAS's)?

Person: Definitely, we won't be dropping support for these calculators since we are making OS 3.0 and they will be compatible with them.

Me: OK, thanks for that then, I guess I should be leaving now..

Person: OK, thanks! Have a good day!

Me: Wait, one more question.

Person: yeah?

Me: When will these things be released?

Person: In April.

Me: Do you know what day?

Person: No, all I know is that it's in April, and even then, that’s just my estimation.

Me: OK, thanks! See ya.

Conclusion: The Nspire CX will NOT be supporting new gaming capabilities and teachers ARE their business, so they don't care about us. The buttons were NOT rubber if anyone is wondering. I only looked at the home screen, moved the cursor a bit, glanced at the documents folder and that was about it. Sorry, I did not ask about the OS 2.53MP. The calculators were noticeably thinner than the current ones and look just like the pictures. The estimated time of arrival is in April.

EDIT: Corrected spelling mistakes at request.

edit edit: oohh icwutudidtharquerty.55

Nice info there
Too bad you didn't ask about the sdk, though.

hmm, you forgot to ask about the TI-84 pocket, I just remembered is he still going to be there at all?

oh goodie, be sure to ask then

I think the lack still of programming on the nspire cx is a bad move by TI. Maybe they dont have to put an actual language on there, but they really should just leave the nspire open for c and asm programs and let the community build the support. instead they block it. and teachers even could benefit with c and asm programs as it allows for full use of the calculators potential, creating the ability to be more interactive with colors and graphics. as long as they do not purposefully block c and asm abilities (well attempt too) the community at least can build support.

Well i dont think the prizm has the hardware to back up powerful enough programs even with a lot of community support. There is someone no matter what TI does that will crack eventually whatever protection they put on there. they should just cut their losses and time and just allow c and asm support

and the prizm just isnt high powered enough in my opinion. the nspire cas blows it out of the water and now with the cx, I am not sure how casio can still compete with the Nspire. I dont think the programmers base though will move to the prizm, the hacks on the nspire now are better than most if not all the games developers have put on the prizms... I think either way TI wins, at least in the US

Well i dont think the prizm has the hardware to back up powerful enough programs even with a lot of community support. There is someone no matter what TI does that will crack eventually whatever protection they put on there. they should just cut their losses and time and just allow c and asm support

The hardware isn't powerful enough? I think you quite underestimate how powerful modern processors are. Look at the TI-83+ Series. That's a 6 MHz processor and it can run some incredibly impressive games. The Prizm, however, can overclock its processor to faster than the Nspire's normal running speed. So, to say it's not powerful enough is to say that the Nspire isn't powerful enough either. Yet I can pretty much guarantee you that the CAS on the Nspire isn't running on more than 90 MHz.

I doubt the wi-fi will be popular enough. Sorry, but not a lot of students will spend $5000 on a Wi-fi device.