Help me pick a calculator

[Maximilian]

Hi, i need to get a calculator that can do the following:

1. Has to be able to save formulas and then bring them up on the screen later

2. If i can add text to these saved formulas like maybe how exactly to go about using the formula then that would be awesome

3. It HAS to be a calculator, i cant use a PDA/laptop/piece of paper it needs to be a calculator

Will this calculator here be able to accomplish that? I noticed it has SD card slot, so maybe i can type out a file in notepad and send it to the calculator and view it later on the calculator? Is that possible?

 

[markgm]

If the TI-89/92/Voyager 200 won't do it. I don't know what will.

 

[Ika]

TI-89 and a connectivity cable. I can load Zelda onto mine...

 

[Maximilian]

Ti-89 gotcha!

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Soviet
Ti-89 gotcha!

Just make sure your class requirements don't ban the use of certain calculators. That model will do work for you so some teachers will not allow it.

 

[Maximilian]

Do i want the TI-89 or the Ti-89 titanium??

Ti-89

Ti-89 Titanium

Is there a difference?

 

[Brigandier]

TI-89 Titanium is the best purchase I have ever made.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: Soviet
Ti-89 gotcha!

Just make sure your class requirements don't ban the use of certain calculators. That model will do work for you so some teachers will not allow it.

Mmmm yes, good call. Im gonna phone around and see if its ok to use one of these.

 

[RandomFool]

I loved my ti-89 but wasn't allowed to use it during any of my calc classes.

It really depends on the professor. The guy I had was pretty awesome. He didn't allow calculators but none of his quiz/test questions required more than single digit number manipulation so if you knew the formulas and what not everything worked out. I had another prof who seems to just pick random numbers and working on of her problems pretty much required a ti-89. After a week with her I switched back to the other guy.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: Soviet
Hi, i need to get a calculator that can do the following:

1. Has to be able to save formulas and then bring them up on the screen later

2. If i can add text to these saved formulas like maybe how exactly to go about using the formula then that would be awesome

3. It HAS to be a calculator, i cant use a PDA/laptop/piece of paper it needs to be a calculator

Will this calculator here be able to accomplish that? I noticed it has SD card slot, so maybe i can type out a file in notepad and send it to the calculator and view it later on the calculator? Is that possible?

hahaha. Why not just say "I need a calculator that I can use to help me cheat by entering notes into"

Don't worry, I did the same thing (in highschool). TI83 and above will work just fine. I had a TI-voyage in college that had a qwerty keypad on it.

Oh, and don't expect to be allowed to use a calculator in most of your classes. I don't think I had a single class in college that I was allowed to use one on a test.

 

[steppinthrax]

HP sells their line of ti-89 like calculators that are pretty much like ti-89 but much more powerful. But yeah the TI-89 is it.

 

[A5]

If you like RPN, then get an HP. If not, get a TI-89 and be done with it.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: Soviet
Hi, i need to get a calculator that can do the following:

1. Has to be able to save formulas and then bring them up on the screen later

2. If i can add text to these saved formulas like maybe how exactly to go about using the formula then that would be awesome

3. It HAS to be a calculator, i cant use a PDA/laptop/piece of paper it needs to be a calculator

Will this calculator here be able to accomplish that? I noticed it has SD card slot, so maybe i can type out a file in notepad and send it to the calculator and view it later on the calculator? Is that possible?

hahaha. Why not just say "I need a calculator that I can use to help me cheat by entering notes into"

Don't worry, I did the same thing (in highschool). TI83 and above will work just fine. I had a TI-voyage in college that had a qwerty keypad on it.

Oh, and don't expect to be allowed to use a calculator in most of your classes. I don't think I had a single class in college that I was allowed to use one on a test.

Lol, because some people on here have these like morals and stuff, and would probably refuse to help me

I gotta find out if i can actually use one of these in an exam, i will find this out on monday and if i get the green light its the Ti-89 titanium ill probably go for

 

[gar3555]

TI-89

Used it all through school, and still use it.

 

[zinfamous]

the kind that you wear on your wrist. those are so effing cool.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

TI-89 by far. If you're prohibited from using it, it's probably cuz you're in HS or something? It's the best purchase I've ever made though.

You'd be amazed how many calculators I've found in college. I found a Ti-86, 85, 83 Plus and an 89 Titanium. I asked everyone I knew about the 89 Titanium I found in my living room. I even asked my roommate, and I swore it was hers because I found the permittivity constant 8.845 x 10^-14 on it and we just had our EE midterm, but she said she has hers on her desk. Shrug. Anyways it's been 2 weeks and I swapped my Ti-89 with the titanium I found in my living room.

Seriously though, the TI-89 will be your best friend through college. For me in HS it was either calculators or no calculators. There was no "No TI-89" policy, so for me it was pointless to have an 83 Plus (yes we were the pre-84 days) if it was either graphers or no graphers at all. In college, I just laugh at people who spend all their time integrating in their engineering classes when the TI-89 gives you a one touch answer. I mean honestly, all they want is the damn stress in the end, and it's not like professors care that you spend your time integrating by parts when all they want is a numerical answer on your problem set.

 

[Juno]

old school ti-83 plus.

i still have mine since 2000.

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
In college, I just laugh at people who spend all their time integrating in their engineering classes when the TI-89 gives you a one touch answer. I mean honestly, all they want is the damn stress in the end, and it's not like professors care that you spend your time integrating by parts when all they want is a numerical answer on your problem set.

All of my professors cared more about actually doing the integration than the actual numbers. Getting the number counted for nothing and doing the work counted for everything.

 

[ItTheCow]

Originally posted by: A5
If you like RPN, then get an HP. If not, get a TI-89 and be done with it.

Something tells me the OP isn't HP-calculator material.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Spend money on the TI-89. You will thank me later.