Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alonzo
From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 28s?
Message-ID: <53551@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 01:59:12 GMT
References: <1388@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1388@watserv1.waterloo.edu> bmaraldo@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) writes:
> 	I am just curious why everyone is selling off their 28s' so fast.
> Is it because the 48sx is a better computer?  Certainly it isn't all that
> much better a calculator than the 28s.

It is a MUCH better calculator.  I would have bought it for the unit
objects alone.  Anyone engaged in the serious study or application of
engineering or applied physics will find this calculator to be a great
help in all calculations.  And that doesn't even begin to address the
improvements.  I wouldn't have used the 28 for plotting because the screen
is far too small; the 48 screen is a window onto an arbitrarily sized
bitmap: ideal for plotting.

Take the trouble to get the facts before you dismiss this machine as some
kind of fancy pocket computer.  Hewlett-Packard has made it clear that the
priority was calculating and not computing.  This is entirely consistent
with the result: there are many things I would want in a computer that are
not in the 48, but it is the best calculator ever made.

The 48 does not obsolete the 28, just as a Ferrari does not obsolete my
Toyota.  If you have the need and the wherewithall, the HP 48SX will make
your life easier.  

By the way, if anyone wants a 28, I'll trade mine for a nice leather case
for my 48.

Alonzo Gariepy
alonzo@microsoft