Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: sub-groups of comp.sys.handhelds Summary: Whoa! Message-ID: <1991Feb11.133005.4917@cs.dal.ca> Date: 11 Feb 91 13:30:05 GMT References: <1991Feb11.010047.16042@csn.org> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca Distribution: na Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanographyna Lines: 35 In article <1991Feb11.010047.16042@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: >How much does the Atari Porfolio cost? >How much does the Sharp Wizard cost? >How much does the Casio BOSS cost? > >Considering that the hp48sx will do many of the same NON-techie things that >the other three will do, I think the hp48sx is a pretty good deal. Granted, I >chose the top end for the other products but I think it is a fair comparison. >Nobody is going to accuse the Sharp Wizard of being "techie-only". ;) ;) Wow, this is beginning to sound like the Atari-Amiga wars! Let's call it off. After all, an earlier poster pointed out that the 48 is basically a game machine (everyone he shows it to is amazed by tetris). I've got a Portfolio, BOSS, and heaps of HP calculators, including both the 48 and 28. I don't really think they can be compared. The Portfolio comes with some neat built-in software, including a spreadsheet, editor and scheduler. The BOSS has handy data bases for dates, addresses, etc. The HP48SX offers many of these features to those of us who get the extra cabling etc. to download programs, but I think the non-techno-weenie who tries to do the same things with a 48 that the BOSS or Wizard do out of the box will end up very frustrated. And I have to confess that this techno-weenie is having a lot of trouble mastering the 48, as evidenced by my puzzled postings. So sure the 48 plays tetris and stores phone numbers, but I still agree with the poster who calls it a technically oriented machine. It does not replace the ones that mortals can use. -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill BITNET=bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac InterNet=bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca