Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a pair of quality headphones that aren't seemingly made of glass. I'm an avid BMXer which causes me to frequently bash on any type of technology that joins me for my daily riding. I've been through the higher quality headsets in the Skullcandy line as these are supposed to be built for "abuse," which is laughable. I cant wear earbuds or canal buds, as my large ears seem to have a repelling property upon anything that sits in them. Wired or Bluetooth doesn't really matter, but I need something that can hold up to taking a few hits every now and again. I'm trying to keep 'em under $150. Thanks!"
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