Secondly, the Nspire development team and the 84 development team are
different teams of people. It's possible for them to both work at the
same time.
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No my opinions are not contradictory. You are making a broad sweeping
statement and in so doing, comparing apples to oranges. Windows xp
still offers many advantages and is still desirable and not obsolete.
But take an unbiased and realistic look at TI calculator products and
what do you see? They are all (including nspire) designs of a bygone
era. Perhaps you have noticed that even todays hand held electric
tooth brushes come with rechargable batteries and a battery charger
but not TI calculators. Color screens are standard on hand held
devices from video recorders to cell phones but there are no color
screens on any TI calculators and it would be difficult to find any up
to date math software that doesn't have excellent 3d graphing except
nspire products. They have none. There products suggest that TI is
out of touch with todays technology and needs to modernize their
products. In that regard it is my preference that they start with the
nspire products because of the faster processor.
Lastly I want to offer you a thought that doesn't seem to occur around
here. The better the TI products are, the more likely they are to
survive the competition. On the other hand if the nspire products get
canceled what kind of support do you think you will get for your
schools nspire calculators? Huh? And if that happens do you think
your school will ever let you spend another big chunk of money again?
It is in your best interests to urge TI to modernize their products
and, because they ignore the customer the only way to get that message
across is to do so repeatedly until they start making significant
improvements. To kick back and assume that it will happen naturally
is folly that amounts to nothing more than wishful thinking.
BTW have you actually seen a TI nspire or 84 calculator design team?
I think that might be a figment of peoples imagination. The credits
on my nspire Pc software suggest that work was contracted
out.
re: parallel universe
Eric, I'm sure you've realized by now that there are some posters on
this board who live in their own separate reality, and they love to
regale the rest of us with tales from their fantasy world.
I don't think it will every be possible to reconcile their world with
the one you and I live in.
re: upcoming Atlanta conference
it will be nice to go to Atlanta and catch up with those folks I got
to know on the Nspire and 84+ design teams. they're nice people.
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The thought might also have been that if they can do pretty print on
the 30 and 34 multiview, why can't they do it on the 84+?
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It was my experience with the Ti-NSpire CAS.
I used a set of rechargeable battery and it lasted about 3 weeks or
so.
re: upcoming Atlanta conference
Some of the nicest people I know are technologically challenged and
the kind thing to do is to encourage them to update their skills and
move into the 21st century. My how time flies. Can you believe that
the TI-84 with it's B&W screen and retro batteries, as a descendent of
the venerable TI-83, was designed in the last century and it still
outsells the nspire design? Me thinks that TI made a Boo-Boo, and
they are going to have to turn nspire into a more desirable product or
dump it.
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I think with any given calculation, the CAS would attempt to compute
symbolically first, if fail, it will then try to produce a numerical
result.
Thus, more calculations needed in the CAS than in the regular one. But
ultimately, the result in batteries life should not be in much
different. I don't remember how different the batteries lives in the
Ti-89 Titanium compare to the Ti-84 Silver but I think the ratio is
close to that of the Nspire CAS vs Nspire respectively. Lastly, there
might be other factors such as batteries brands, capacities, charged
status (full, not full)...etc.
Cheers,
Nelson
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For 30 calculators it should take a little over 30 minutes.
Cheers,
Nelson
PS: a long, long time ago I had to update 30 Nspires and I used this
method; I had 8 unit-to-unit cables, it was really fun to connect and
disconnect them as the updates were finishing :)
To install new apps you can use connect-to-class, right?
Nelson
The fastest way to remove all apps is by going to the mem menu and
choosing Reset - All. After 2 or 3 units you'll know the keystroke
sequence by heart. Just lay down the calculators side by side and
think of it as if you were working in an assembly line ;)
Once you reach the end you can start all over again installing the OS
upgrade using the exponential growth method. Then install the apps you
want using the same method.
I think resetting all memory and then installing apps all over again
is faster (and far less annoying) than the painfully slow app-by-app
delete of the 84 Plus.
Cheers,
Nelson
You could dummy up a network with silver link cables and use Navigator
(the original one) to send out OS and apps. It doesn't always play
nicely with too many USB connections, but even if you can do two at a
time, that'll be better than TI-Connect.
My favorite way to remove all except a select list of approved apps is
TestGuard 2. You don't even need to open the case to turn them on.
Just plug in and go.
Does one update the nspire 84 faceplate the same way as the 84? Or is it not possible to update the 84 faceplate?
Dan
Nelson
Peter:What Mac OS are you running? SmartView is working just fine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard. It did not seem as happy on my older G4 running 10.4 at school.lk
A SmartView user can return to the OS that originally came with SmartView by using Tools – Restore Default State.
Also, I understand that you also need to have updated Catalog Help to version 1.1. You need that to run with 2.53MP.
Hope this helps,
Steve
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