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The keys leave a lot to be desired, you can turn on a beep each time a key is pressed, this does help a bit to assure an entry was made. HP obviously abandoned the idea of developing new calcs and the 49G is a 48 series with different skins ( & mabe a hyped up CAS system ). The education market where TI plays relies on selling a new calc to each class of kids going through school. HP just is slow to address this market niche. As far as addressing the needs or wants of practicing professionals we can just hope HP can catch up. It really shouldn't be hard to develop a 42S based calc with I/O capabilities (& mabe more memory). Calcs do not have to be fast or process text & large amounts of data.
On the other hand... The 48/49 series is a very open system and very powerful system and I need to applaud the development of it. There is a ton of supporting software and applications developed for it. there is absolutly no comparison in the TI area.
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You are right. The HP 49G is shit. An HPer told me HP now owns most of TI. The 6S Solar is the same as the TI -34, chips and all.
This happened since HP owns TI !
A shame. Yes I wish there was a New HP 42 type calculator.