TI-89 Titanium for $120.00 shipped

[DoK]

I know this isn't really computer related, but I suspect there's a few other fellow engineering dorks that hang around this forum, so I thought I'd post.

You know that crazy awesome calculator that everyone in your study group has but you? This is its newer and better big brother. Great for EE's, ME's, ChE's, and CE's. They're on backorder right now, but they should be in by Aug. 22, just in time for next semester.

Use coupon code "54868211" ($30 off of $150) and find something else to make your order go from $149.99 to $150.00 so the coupon code will work.

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=503376

[Nova]

whuts the diff between the ti-83 and ti-89?

[DoK]

I'm not sure about all the differences, but I have a Casio FX 2.0 which can do everything the TI-83 can (graph, evaluate integrals, etc.). The reason I want the TI-89 is because of the programs available for it because if its higher quantity of memory and the ability to graph in 3-D (useful for Calculus III). A program called EE Pro (Electrical Engineering Pro), for example, can do everything you'd ever want to do with circuits, including loop analysis, nodal analysis, power dissipation, wire sizing, determining voltage drop over long distances, computing phasors, and it even solves everything you need for Op-Amp circuits. It does a lot more, but I can't remember everything right now.

It also has ME Pro (Mechanical Engineering Pro) which can do all sorts of things with physics and heat expansion and what not. It's a great little gadget.

[PCgeek]

Yeah I think my cousin lost my Ti83+... I would get the 89 but teachers at my school are retarded and they demand students have only a Ti83+ when they know perfectly well that any higher model will do the same functions...

[Devils00Champs]

Yeah I think my cousin lost my Ti83+... I would get the 89 but teachers at my school are retarded and they demand students have only a Ti83+ when they know perfectly well that any higher model will do the same functions...

Wrong, as i see your from NY also, any calc above the 83+ is banned from the math regents. Due to the reasons that it is much more programmable and has all those calculus functions

[PCgeek]

True, but I just took the Math B regents so I can use another one :P but teachers still wont let me. and the Ti-85 is more than programmable enough. I pretty much wrote a program for every formula in the text book and sold them lol. Of course we have to clear the memory for the regents so they we're useless then. And I don't cheat, didn't use them for any regular tests either. But they did make me some pocket change :)

[Assimilator87]

I bought a Ti-89 a year ago. The screen layout is way better than the Ti-83. The disadvantage is that when I take tests, I have to use a Ti-83 and I'm not really familiar with them so sometimes I get lost. Is the titanium version better or something?

[DoK]

I can't remember all of the new stuff in the Titanium, other than it has twice as much memory and er. . . something else :)

I want one because I never jumped on the TI-89 bandwagon, so I figured I'd just go with the newer version.

*EDIT: 3 TIMES as much memory, my bad. Mine just came in and wooeee, I have some serious manual reading to do.

[Devils00Champs]

Thinking of getting one, could be useful in college

[mike81188]

The Ti-89 titanium is probably the best since it is allowed on several major tests, unlike the 92 or voyage 200. the ti-89 is almost exactly the same as the 92, without the QWERTY keyboard which makes no difference. The 92 and voyage 200 are big and bulky, thus less portable. I'd rather have a calculator with the same properties of the 92 that fits in my pocket, which is what the 89 is. The 89 titanium would be the best calculator for more advanced math, not Math A or Math B, where it is not permitted. I'm from NY and you can't use above an 83+SE on the regents.

[PCgeek]

Well Im done with the regents. Taking pre-calc this year and calculus on my senior year so I might as well get one, especially since mine is nowhere to be found...

[Assimilator87]

What are the Regents? I'll be a Junior this year and I haven't hear of it.

[Devils00Champs]

Assimilator, thats because youre in Colorado. Its a stupid New York State policy to have a test at the end of a certain class (not final) and if you dont pass this test you cannot graduate in most instances