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$160 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI84-TI-Calculator/... Not as bad as I would've expected. Also, apparently it includes a very simple Python environment? https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/eguides/eguide...
For a $10 BoM and maybe a year of R&D I would say that $160 is bad.
75” 4k OLED screens would have been unobtainable when I first used a TI. 10yrs ago they would have been 4 to 5 figures. Now they are what? A couple hundred? How in the world is a TI graphing calculator still $160? These 30yr old calculator chips apparently hold their value like gold…
It’s got a 3x faster processor brah
"Online calculator included (four-year subscription) •($80 value)"
What calculators are you guys using that aren't in academia anymore and don't need the "exam approved" limitations? Or are we all just using software on our computers now. That would be sad. (I've had a Casio fx-991EX on my desk for a few years, that replaced a broken Casio fx-991ES. Though designed for academia, its operation is burned into my brain at this point.)
> Not just an upgrade — an EVOlution Oh no.
There's the NumWorks which is very similar for a more reasonable price, that also run Python
The hardware and software design similarities between this Evo and Numworks is a strong endorsement.
There should be a cheap open source calculators for schools and exams. It’s ridiculous that TI is still charging this.
It runs Python! National exams will be wild for the kids capable of programming or vibe coding.
We had to buy those calculators for highschool and it was a waste of money, felt like somebody must be paying somebody off to have thousands of students buy a device that they will certainly never have to use (and is of little educational value).
But yes. 99% of what we did with them in class - when we were even allowed to use them - could have been handled by a little solar-powered calculator with basic arithmetic functions.