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I happened to stop by my local calculator dealer for a quick Friday afternoon chat and not really expecting anything new. You can imagine my surprise when he pulled out a 49G+! He had three in stock and had already sold two. His shipment arrived last Friday (Oct 3). To my delight he said he would let me try one out and opened the package. After installing the batteries, I breathlessly awaited his pressing of the ON button. When the moment arrived, nothing happened-no display or beep. He was as surprised as I was-in all his years in the business, a new HP unit has never failed the turn-on test. We checked the batteries and connections and tried several times to fire it up but nothing. He opened unit 2 with the same result! However, the last unit was the charm-it worked beautifully!
The keyboard has a good tactile feel and the display contast is very good. There was no hesitation with registering the keystrokes as on the 49. The time to graph a simple function was not lightning fast but still impressive. Believe it or not, I did not purchase it today-I wanted to think about it over the weekend. I am impressed by what I have seen and tried out so far-even the starter manual appears to be an improvement over the old 49's. I guess I was a bit shaken by the quality control and wanted some time to think about it. He said that the 33S is expected in mid November. Any other experieces out there?
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Oh yeah, that's really promising. With any luck, the supplier might receive them from HP next week, and Samson Cables might receive them from the supplier the week after that, and then Samson Cables can get them packed up, labeled and on the way to the customers....
Oh, and then the customers get to try them and see if they work....
Regards,
James
Edited: 11 Oct 2003, 7:49 a.m.