50g

I just
> wish HP had as much support and lessons for their calculators like TI
> does.  TI has flooded the high schools and universities with their
> calculators and has brainwashed the majority of high school math
> teachers.
>

In days gone by, TI never could compete in the engineering market
(because engineers loved RPN) and turned to the education market
instead. Engineers were, for the most part, the only ones who could
afford an HP, making schools fertile grounds for the non-HP calculator
manufacturers.  Now engineers , for the most part, use Math Cad or other
PC based software and have abandoned HP, forcing HP to compete in the
student market. Also too, Hp calculators were sold only in an HP
approved retail outlet where TI calculators were much more readily
available. So it's not exactly TI brainwashing anyone, but rather a
matter of economics.

  You may want to check out the TI89 Titanium. It is a very impressive
machine that competes quite nicely with the 50g. Each machine (50g/89)
has it 'pluses and minuses' (pun intended) and are truly next generation
calculators.

Greetings,
Mike