Darn I hope HP listened and re-used their nice, old keys (nice tactile feel - and almost impossible to wear out)... I started out with a 32SII that followed me ever since. I love the keys and the easy HEX input. Hate the limited stack and one line display. As I remember it it mate complex number calculations very hard to keep on track... "Upgraded" to an HP 48GX after that - but parted with it after having it lying in the drawer for a looong while: That crap was slooow. Seemingly it had an obsession with taking 0.5s breaks for no apparent reason (even while keying in simple additions) fairly often. It didn't seem to be a problem with 48G's - so I guess it was some (stupidly implemented) memory paging or something. After that I've actually considered buing an used second HP 32SII or a couple of 42S - until I discovered the prices. Then settled for the trusted old 32SII and the PC. I hope the "new" 35S proves to have the nice keys - and then I'll have to live with seemingly down-prioritized hexadecimal functions. ;-)
Cheers, Anders (RPN fanboy ;-)
PS: Jerome said it like it should be said in this thread: "C'mon HP, give us calculators with today's power but yesterday's quality!". Hopefully HP listened this time :-D
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Darn I hope HP listened and re-used their nice, old keys (nice tactile feel - and almost impossible to wear out)...
I started out with a 32SII that followed me ever since. I love the keys and the easy HEX input. Hate the limited stack and one line display. As I remember it it mate complex number calculations very hard to keep on track...
"Upgraded" to an HP 48GX after that - but parted with it after having it lying in the drawer for a looong while: That crap was slooow. Seemingly it had an obsession with taking 0.5s breaks for no apparent reason (even while keying in simple additions) fairly often. It didn't seem to be a problem with 48G's - so I guess it was some (stupidly implemented) memory paging or something.
After that I've actually considered buing an used second HP 32SII or a couple of 42S - until I discovered the prices. Then settled for the trusted old 32SII and the PC.
I hope the "new" 35S proves to have the nice keys - and then I'll have to live with seemingly down-prioritized hexadecimal functions. ;-)
Cheers,
Anders (RPN fanboy ;-)
PS: Jerome said it like it should be said in this thread: "C'mon HP, give us calculators with today's power but yesterday's quality!". Hopefully HP listened this time :-D