The hardware dirt-cheap to produce, and they've the R&D that went into it was paid off LONG ago. But here we are 14 years after the release of the ti-83+ and they're still selling for $95 at walmart. The 83+ sold for, what, $150 on release? That's understandable as the hardware was indeed more expensive back then, and more importantly, all the R&D that went into programming the calculator to do what it does (not that they started from scratch, though, since it was built off the 83, which was built off the 82, which was a stripped down 85.). Even all the way back in 1998 at release, the gameboy color cost you $80 brand-spanking new (I still remember when my mom drove me to walmart so I could buy my atomic purple GBC). The heart of the GBC was an 8MHz customized Zilog Z80. The heart of the ti-83+ is a 6 MHz Zilog Z80 processor ( which you can buy solitary for $3.25 these days). So for comparison there, the Gameboy Color had just come out the previous year. It still came out all the way back in 1999. But let's be fair and look at the 83+ as that's what's most common.
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(unless they decided to upgrade to the pocket which had the same functionality). Back in 1996, people were still playing on the original brick Gameboys. 17 years is an eternity when it comes to technology.
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Hell, a person can pick up a TI-83 Plus for about $45 used, and that has gotten me through higher level math courses fine.Īlso, outdated? Do you expect some great leaps in the field of general calculations and established formulas hundreds of years old so that we can have newer and even more expensive calculators? If you happen to try to argue that phones and tablets have graphing calculator apps, well, I hope you have enough common sense to realize that all because something can be a calculator doesn't mean a teacher is going to let you use it as one.Ĭlick to expand.They are absolutely outdated and expensive. For most people here, you can pick up a used TI-84 for around $80, which, when considering multi-year usage, isn't really so bad. Many times, comparable calculators from other brands are either missing functions that teachers, textbooks, and general formulas will mostly use, or are unnecessarily convoluted in trying to make the calculator seem unique. It probably doesn't help that Texas Instruments has a bit of a monopoly on the high level calculator market, primarily because every textbook that requires calculator use has a TI calculator as the base. Plus, they may be expensive, but they will work for absolutely ever, and due to them always being needed, they have a decent resell value if you need some cash and no longer need the calculator. From pre-calculus forward, or when going into statistics, it is pretty much absolutely necessary to at least have a TI-83 (Plus) though.
A smart student will realize that TI-34 will work for pretty much every level math up to Pre-Calculus.
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