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List Price: $170.99
Our Price: $154.78
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Manufacturer: Texas Instruments
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Texas Instruments
EAN: 0033317190683
Feature: Functions: Built-in CAS (Computer Algebra System)Handheld
Is Autographed: 0
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Label: Texas Instruments
Manufacturer: Texas Instruments
Model: NSCAS/PWB/1L1
Publisher: Texas Instruments
Studio: Texas Instruments
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Functions: Built-in CAS (Computer Algebra System)Handheld
Power Source: Battery
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Editorial Reviews:
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The TI-Nspire CAS handheld and computer software has all the functionality of TI-Nspire technology plus built-in CAS (Computer Algebra System) capabilities. Explore, evaluate and simplify expressions, numeric problems and variables symbolically. Experience all the functionality of TI-Nspire technology plus built-in CAS capabilities, which provides the ability to explore, evaluate and simplify expressions, numeric problems and variables symbolically. The TI-Nspire CAS handheld does not include the snap-in TI-84 Plus Keypad, which is compatible exclusively with the TI-Nspire handheld. White box.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: TI...Did you forget to include something with my Nspire CAS?
Comment: I'm basically saisfied with the product,but can't begin to discribe how poorly written and incomplete the documentation that accompanied it is. Case in point, my TI 83 plus came with a approximately 500 page manual. In contrast,the much more complex Nspire arrived with a 134 page guide. Can't wait for other publications on this calculator to hit bookstore shelves!
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Summary: Not so good right now
Comment: I would stay away from this thing like the plague until TI unlocks the drm-type locks it has to prevent assembly programs, and high-quality dialog based basic programs.
Without said features, it's really a high power adding machine (even without the CAS it's totally worthless against a ti89/ti92/ti-voyager which can be tailored and dramatically enhanced with user created softwares (see: ticalc.org NO THEY DON'T HAVE A PROGRAM's SECTION FOR TI-NSPIRE PROGRAMS BECAUSE THEIR AREN'T ANY TINSPIRE PROGRAMS... THEY DO FOR ALL OTHER TI-CALCULATORS EVER CREATED HOWEVER... LOL)
Now if somewhere down the road... ti allows ti-89-scale assembly and basic programmability then by all means buy this, but NOT BEFORE... i still got my old black ti89 hardware version 1 tweaked out to the max with various programs and useful utilities and use it almost daily... i'm thinking of getting a ti-voyager in hopes that all my basic-language programs would still work (seeing as how it's just a ti89 with alot of memory and a big screen)
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Summary: TI-Nspire CAS -- A Product-in-Progress
Comment: I probably would have given this product three stars, but I feel that I must balance some of the overly generous grades given by other reviewers. I do not believe that a product that merely works merits a five star rating.
The Nspire CAS has the hardware potential to be a quantum upgrade to the aging TI-89, which is based upon late 1980's processor technology. And yet, at the time this review is being written, the TI-89 is a generally more powerful and easy-to-use programmable calculator than the Nspire CAS.
The built-in software of the TI-89 is very mature, and has much more programming capability than the Nspire CAS. This enables it to run thousands of free user-supplied programs, which can be readily downloaded into the '89 from the internet (via a PC) using only software freely available from TI. The Nspire CAS, by contrast, has no "free" connectivity to the PC or internet. Even if it had this, it cannot run programs written for the '89 due to the lack of many programming features, like input/output and menus.
Possibly TI will remedy the deficiencies in the Nspire CAS programming capability in time, but one should not purchase a product that might be upgraded at some indefinite time when a product that already has the needed features is available right now.
I believe that TI is aware of the foregoing and other deficiencies in the Nspire CAS (many mentioned by other reviewers here). That's why they've priced the Nspire CAS about the same as the TI-89 Titanium, despite the Nspire's superior processor (potentially 3x faster execution), massively larger (20x) user memory capability, and somewhat better display.
In the end, it's the software that does the work, whether on a calculator or a full-fledged computer. The TI-89 has proven to be an enduring example of superb hardware/software integration and value engineering, whereas the Nspire CAS, mostly due to immature software, is a beta product masquerading as a production release.
I am hopeful that the TI Nspire CAS will eventually supercede the TI-89. Given software capability that is merely the equal to that available with the TI-89, the Nspire CAS would today be the superior value proposition. Alas, that's not yet the case.
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Summary: Crippled Giant
Comment: This could have been the best calculator ever. It does amazing things. But in crucial ways it is a step backwards:
--Previous TI calculators come with software that allow you exchange data with your PC or Mac. NOT SO THE NSPIRE. For that, you have to buy the desktop version of the software, costing over $100 dollars PER COMPUTER. You can write notes for the NSPIRE, but you need to do that on a computer to make them of any length. So you need to buy the desktop version for that feature. A cynic might call this bait and switch.
--The programming is not as powerful as the TI-83/84. It does not appear to take input. Since Texas Instruments is touting this as a teaching calculator, educators need to be able to write complex teaching programs, but they cannot.
I give high marks to the engineers who created this powerful calculator but the business people who crippled it should be sent to Siberia. Although I've spent hours playing with this, I'll still recommend my tutoring students get a TI-84, which can easily import and export data and has teaching and programming capabilities.
Shame on Texas Instruments.
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Summary: Nice item, escecially when you need it for class
Comment: What else can be said, but this is another calculator made by TI that works and is required in the class room.
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