It also still treats RPN as a second-class citizen. You can import a front-end, flash a custom firmware, yada yada... In ten years maybe it'll be right.
But realistically, adult human beings who still want a graphing calculator want either a CAS and/or RPN.
It's ridiculous that buying a vintage HP-48GX is still the best way to get solid RPN on a calculator. The software environment was incredible.
You can accept the worse keyboard of the HP-50G for the increased speed and memory, sure, but there was a product category, it was almost perfect, and Carly Fiorina killed it. We have chips with 100,000 times the capabilities and yet we can't get a calculator with solid software and decent keyswitches at any price.
But realistically, adult human beings who still want a graphing calculator want either a CAS and/or RPN.
It's ridiculous that buying a vintage HP-48GX is still the best way to get solid RPN on a calculator. The software environment was incredible.
You can accept the worse keyboard of the HP-50G for the increased speed and memory, sure, but there was a product category, it was almost perfect, and Carly Fiorina killed it. We have chips with 100,000 times the capabilities and yet we can't get a calculator with solid software and decent keyswitches at any price.