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Subject: Re: calculators vs computers
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Date: 22 Sep 90 14:20:32 GMT
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In a previous article, Pamr Davis writes

> ..... I'm not trying to write papers on my 48sx... I let my desktop machine 
> with LaTeX and GNU Emacs take care of that.  I wouldn't take notes on a
> laptop;

> I *can*, however, take my 48sx into my math and
> physics tests with no problem.... :-) 

I use a 28s instead of a 48sx (only cause I can't afford a 48 yet), and I agree
entirely. When people ask me why I didn't just save my money for a laptop, I
like to point out that:

1) The cheapset laptop is much more expensive than the 28 or the 48
2) To get the math power contained in that little calculator, you'd have to
spend another few hundred dollars to get a program like Maple, Derive,
Mathematica, or something similar.
3) As pointed out before, you can't generally take a laptop into a test with
you.

You are not just buying a calcultor - you are buying a complex mathematical
software package as well!