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TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« on: May 08, 2011, 06:27:27 pm »
Alright I've been looking at the Nspire Clickpad and I have a question.

The Non-CAS is $159  :o

The CAS is $63  :w00t:

Does the CAS have less features then the Non-CAS?

If not, why doesn't it cost as much as the Non-CAS?

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CAS http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-NSCAS-PWB-1L1/dp/B000QSX9EK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1304892680&sr=1-3
Non-CAS http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-NSpire-Handheld-Calculator/dp/B000QSZD44/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1304819359&sr=1-4

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2011, 06:53:22 pm »
As far as I know, CAS's, mathwise, can do everything a nonCAS can and more.  Programming wise, it's more limited.  However this doesn't explain why it's cheaper, since most of them don't care about programming...

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2011, 06:54:15 pm »
So the CAS would be a bad choice?

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2011, 07:13:04 pm »
If you want to be Ndless compatible, probably.

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2011, 07:16:05 pm »
I'm not concerned about Ndless.

All I'm concerned about is some simple programming and to play games and try and run programs.

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2011, 07:24:15 pm »
well, Both Nspire's programming is crippled with no input or getkey.  So none of the games will be very good except ASM ones ones which are only playable trough Ndless.

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2011, 07:41:30 pm »
No input? At all? No INPUT? So that makes even math programs impossible to create!

I still want one.

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2011, 07:53:01 pm »

you can create functions, so you set up the arguments, but definitely no really good games

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2011, 07:55:15 pm »
Like I asked on IRC, is the MLC available for this version of Nspire?

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2011, 09:24:06 am »
The Nspire CAS OS doesn't have the (incomplete) TI-84+ emulator provided by the non-CAS OS - but it has a CAS :)

Ndless supports the non-CAS OS and the CAS OS equally well.
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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2011, 01:05:53 pm »
The Nspire CAS OS doesn't have the (incomplete) TI-84+ emulator provided by the non-CAS OS - but it has a CAS :)

Ndless supports the non-CAS OS and the CAS OS equally well.
Also note that the CX non-CAS version doesn't have the 84+ emu.
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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2011, 01:11:50 pm »
So I will be considering this CAS version. Thanks for everyone's help! And if Ndless is compatible with the CAS that's awesome

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2011, 01:14:26 pm »
Why not just get the regular and load CAs on it if you need it. They have OSLauncher and a tutorial on how to do it.

I'm thinking about doing thta to mine so I can do some of the math it lets me do.
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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2011, 01:30:33 pm »
Why not just get the regular and load CAs on it if you need it. They have OSLauncher and a tutorial on how to do it.

I'm thinking about doing thta to mine so I can do some of the math it lets me do.
Why not get a CAS (which is cheaper) and run the 84+ emu on it using OSLauncher?

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Re: TI-Nspire CAS Clickpad Question?
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2011, 01:44:49 pm »
The reason I'm getting the CAS is becuase its cheaper.