Hats off to hp, they really seem to have made a huge effort to make the prime as user friendly as possible. I love the solve triangle feature. Thanks for the video Martin. ~ Jason

HP stopped trying to compete/ dethrone TI a long time ago i am honestly surprised and happy to see they have a new rpn capable calculator with decent processor and touch screen.

Very nearly six years old - the TI is now up to the Nspire CX II CAS and the HP is up to the Prime G2 (Rev D). Both are about 3x faster than these. The Nspire CX II has the same RAM capacity as the CX (64 MB), while the Prime G2 increased its RAM from 32MB to 256MB, a dramatic increase. A new comparison of these would be interesting.

First class video - extremely informative. If only all of the internet was like this...

I agree HP does seem to have something interesting in this calculator. I will be doing more research into what it does. I really like that it's screen is slightly larger than the TI-Nspire CX CAS (not by much though), and is also a touch screen. I appreciate HP not creating a calculator display like that of the Casio II FX-CP 400. It's my personal preference to feel buttons under my fingertips while using a calculator, the Casio II FX-CP 400 seems to require using its screen a lot (making that pen device included with it that more important). If I desired an almost full touchscreen device, I'd prefer to use my tablet to pull off calculations.

The HP has a storage mode. If it isn't used for a few days, it goes into low-power standby and lasts for weeks or months. It also uses the same (very inexpensive) battery as an older Samsun phone.

Just wanted to say, I enjoy your channel. I own a HP prime g2 and Ti-89 titanium. I used the Ti-89T in college, - I wish the Ti-89T had Hp Prime's hardware, the prime blows it out of the water, as far as I know, its the fastest handheld calculator in the world. But the Ti-89T is more intuitive to me. * spoiler alert, all can be emulated on a cell phone, my Nord 10n 5g blows them all out of the water, (just a snapdragon 690), even through emulation, but independent calculators are still amazing, I own both. I am working on the total number of genetically distinct possible humans calculation, already figured out how to calculate the factorial of any number, next comes permutation calculations. 3.05×10^9 permutation 4. update the answer is 8.65X10^41 I may have to discover a new branch of probability theory, involving limits.

Your review was just out of this world! So great, in fact, that I personally believe that your mad analysis skills put an unhealthy amount of tech websites/videos to shame. I look forward to watching the rest of your CAM series.

Sin duda HP Prime hasta ahora lidera con su velocidad, muchos programadores estan logrando cosas muy prometedoras con ella.

Thank for that review. The last calculator I bought was an HP49 and didn't like the logic of use. Actually it seemed more complex than the HP48GX that I'm currently using. Your review sold me that HP decided to make things simpler and more intuitive. The processor should indeed speed things up dramatically which you demonstrated. I like the ease of operation and easier to find functions when needed. I'm hoping that it does have a good selection of library apps for different scientific applications.

Hi Ron, Thanks for the feedback and the info on the fx-cp400...I did not know about it! I'm certainly not going to do a proper review and comparison with an emulator...so the real thing has just been ordered and will be here in a week or so. So keep an eye open for that ;-) Cheers, Martin.

Yup, I'm certainly initially impressed by what they have produced. Thanks for the post Jason. Cheers, Martin.

I bought this calculator when my old and trusty TI-89 died after 10 years of heavy use and I decided to go for something with a cool LCD screen, like the HP-prime. I decided to go for it and not the TI Nspire CX CAS because the HP had much newer hardware, even tho as a newer model I knew it would have much buggier software at the beginning. Well, I regret choosing it over the Nspire until today and never loved it, I never loved that app based environment and the buggy solve command cannot even solve "x^2 - 2^x=0 ,x" even today, running the latest firmware. what it loves doing most of the time is spitting out empty brackets [[]] instead of usable results, in more of the 1/3 of the times the command is used. The calculator fails so often to give usable results without hanging etc that I lost my trust on it and it ends up more and more laying forgotten in my closet. As a heavy user of the programming feature I was trying for ages to figure out simple things about how to output text and results properly on the screen and I never managed to find out how to have a probram output something like a matrice or a fraction on the screen in a pretty and easily readable textbook form, like even my old TI-89 with its old style dot matrix screen was capable of, but all that seems possible is to throw them out as ugly, one-lined strings, like "Mat1=[1,2,3][4,5,6][7,8,9]" or "F=((q1+q2)/(q3*r))/r^x)" for the users pleasure to read. Now, after I went through the initial period of happiness, then the period of denial and finally the period of frustration I finally realized and admitted to myself that I really must go for another TI if I really want my smile to return to my face again, and after one year of frustration I'm on the market for that Nspire CX CAS...

I was very close to buying this calculator as an upgrade to my 25+ year old HP 48GX, but it doesn't seem the HP of today is the same as the HP of yesteryear. The rechargeable battery caused me some concern as a quality replacement no longer seems available. Then I read of software issues and the premature bricking of some and decided against it. That just left the Casio fx-cg500. I'll have to see how it does in EE work.

The TI calculator stranglehold is why the US is never going back to the Moon.

Good video man. I have a TI N-Spire CX CAS and must say: it's SO much easier to use, more intuitive! Cheers from Brazil

If HP wants to sell me one or more of these, they will absolutely need to implement classic user RPL as found in the 50G.

Loove your videos! :D Just ordered a HP Prime. I would love to see a review/ tutorial on it. Keep up the good work!!

Where's the manual? My HP-50g came with a nice printed manual, very useful and quite complete. I don't like that plastic cover, this HP deserves a leather case. Thanks for posting, very nice video!

Thanks Austin for your comment. I have an HP67 and am very happy with it, it is now 37 years old and just died on me. I don't really need the HP Prime Graphing Calc. and do not need to look back on anything. I want to buy one, because it is the only RPN calculator that has rechargeable batteries. I do not understand why HP dropped this in favour of expensive short lasting non rechargeables. That was stupid. If you wonder why there is a photo of Rose Plaat, while I am a man, I don't know that either, but the odd thing is that she is one of my granddaughters and I have no idea how her photo got onto this site.

You CAN use pinch on the graphs to zoom. Did they add this later?

HP Prime, Ti nSpire CX CAS... they are great but ... i still love my old trustworthy Ti-92 Plus lol

If you have a collection of calculators it would be nice if you can do a series of horizontal slice reviews per function such as complex number, differentiation, integrals etc.

Good review, but you forget to say one of the most important things: How do you swap stack values Y to X in RPN mode. On HP50g you had to use right arrow. On HP35s there is a separate button. I think the most valuable thing is indeed the RPN mode on these calculators.

Yup...but based in the US now. Thanks for the feedback.

HP Prime, Ti nSpire CX CAS... they are great but da*n... i still love my old trustworthy Ti-92 Plus lol

Comparing what is in the box with the TI CX CAS, I would say TI wins based on videos alone. They had complete books and better packaging. I'm sure that HP provides documentation electronically but I like the books I can hold and dogtail.

I wish I had this in 1988 but then I had a HP27s and back in 1976 in computer science had a slide ruler. Wow, these kids are spoiled.

HP Prime, Ti nSpire CX CAS... they are great but damn... i still love my old trustworthy Ti-92 Plus loo

My hp-prime doesn’t have the function key under Menu in Plot mode but that functionality is available through the Trace submenus. I can however pinch open plots to zoom in. RPN is available in Home Settings>Entry

haven't you noticed a little bit of screen flickering while scrolling up/down the touchscreen? My hp prime uses to flicker in the clock/battery side of the screen when i scroll the display. I've also experienced crashes and auto rebooting when i intensively use the touchscreen. I don't know if they are hardware or software (bugs) problems. I'm running the last FW (6030)

Thanks for the great videos comparing calculators, nice detailed and well explained. Just wondering what calculator your self ended up with, or use the most of the ones tested?, this HP Prime does seems to be overall best value, but which one did you pick?

Is there a direct way to calculate F, t-student, chi-square probabilities?

At 19:35 , you can do a "pinch and zoom" by putting your two fingers over the graph

Great reviews as always. What's the major difference between the Hardware Rev A and C in the HP Primes.

PLEASE MAKE MORE GRAPHING CALCULATOR VIDEOOOOOOOOOSSS

I still believe that Ti-Nspire CX CAS is the best for school

Man, it's sooooooo beautiful!

I hope to cover vectors in the future with all the graphing calculators to see how well they do. The Prime will be included.

Nice video! Would you, please, do some videos about programming this calculator? Thanks!

Hi VBlogMag, Is the HP Prime now worth buying over the TI Nspire CX CAS in your opinion? I don't like the small keyboard on the TI Nspire as it's ridiculous & irrelevant for programs nor do I like the hardware...ie. Rockers. The usage of apps is nested in a very strange way as well........awkward really. Thank you sir, Stefos

Thanks for the reviews on the calcs. They have come in handy. Anyhow, I did some research of my own and found that the old Model HP Prime NW280AA (rev A) is not wirelessly capable like the newer model G8X92AA (rev c). Personally, I prefer rev c over A, simply because it offers just a bit more options including....well....wireless connection. I never did like cables connected to my calcs. I also found out that the only way you can tell which is which is when your looking at the back of the package, to Look for the model number HIDDEN and in small print just above the bar code. Is HP trying to sell off rev a in hopes nobody notices? As big as the package is you would thing they would advertise model numbers like all other brands out there.

Thanks for the post and bringing this to my attention.

Hi VBlogMag, where are the follow-up videos on your calc-compare series? BTW: got my Prime today... what a beast! Did you do the latest firmware update already? Now pinching in plot mode is possible (and a breeze) and especially the sketch feature is downright awesome! Cheers.

Why they always arrive in this vacuum-type package killing every good unboxing experience?

How are your exponents of a smaller size font than the base number ? I have always wanted this. My exponents are the same size as the base number, which of course looks stupid and takes up too much space on the screen.

Really impressive!

Thanks for another well detailed video. Once you've used a calculation on the stack, do the numbers on the stack disapeer? If they do not, how many numbers can be stored on the stack.

The features for programing are available or the Prime is a calculator only?

battery life vs the Ti what ones has better battery life

HP should pay you for selling me a Prime... thanks for the video!

I love RPN and hate that hp prime only has it on home mode and only CAS has exact mode, it gives Sin(pi) = -2.0x10^-13 instead of 0

Turns out when i try to do this it appears "Warning! Algebraic extension not implemented yet for poly [a,b,c,d]" , and i've tried changing the complex mode and the approx mode, it just can't solve it yet. I hope in the next update they fix this. This calculator has a lot of potential ;)

he mentioned using a smartphone for advanced calculations. There is an app on Google Play that is like $4 called Graph89. You can emulate a calculator using the ROM file right from TI website.....but I can't imagine schools allowing you to use your phone in class...well, at least not when i was in school.....

What's that small plastic box attached to the cable?

How do you update the frimware.. I haven't found any links from HP yet.

hi . can you insert images on this calculator ? could you upload a video with details about "how to insert images on a graph calculator " ??

The disappointing thing about the Prime is that it doesn't smoothly support RPN. If you're using it solely to create solutions, this isn't too important. But if you want to solve problems on the fly, it's a major drawback. I owned the original HP-35 (1972), and for me, RPN is to professional calculators what through-the-lens viewing is to professional cameras (SLR and view).

The latest model (G8X92AA) DOES have pinch to zoom. Unfortunately you have to shop around a little for it.

Ooo, who needs calculators lol, when smartphones do everything with tiny non-tactile glassy screens and fast-dying batteries? I love expending vast quantities of eye-hand coordination aiming for pretend buttons!

Make a 10 years later review of your calculator

How can i get the calculator to output π/4 instead of 0.785398 when doing arctan(1)?

How does functionality compare to say the HP-48SX or GX? Does it have the built-in Equation Library etc.?

Btw HP Prime is allowed for SAT, IB and such, except the PCMT (?

The reason HP's calculator division abandoned the engineering market is 'cause Carly Fiorina had 'em revising all their manuals to eliminate masculine references in the early 2000s.

Can anyone explain why sometimes my "x t (theta) n" button gets mapped to the letter 'a' vs the default 'x'. I have to perform a factory reset to get it working correctly again.

Good video. I'm using the Hp Prime emulator to test it, one thing i do to see the speed of a calculator is solve the third grade equation: ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0,x (the TI nspire cx cas solves it but is slow) and now im trying with HP Prime, i was surprised when i noticed that it can't solve it! . Now im dissapointed :(

I have a question. Maybe you cant do this but I want to graph a derivative or interval. When I try to it says invalid object or with the integral, trying to graph an indefinite integral, it wont let me even enter it into the advanced graphing without placing the upper and lower bounds. This is the only calculator that I have tried which will not cooperate. I am trying to decide whether to buy an nspire cx cas or this.

As much as I prefer reviews of devices to be from those who at least sound like professionals, a snag with information junkies is, I'm ten minutes into the video and I have not yet heard a single functional fact about it. You wouldn't base your purchase on the weight? No kidding! :-)

hi this amazing calculator works with the vectors? i mean vecA X vecB or vecA * vecB?

What did you press in order to bring up the screen with the fraction, differentiation, and integral formats? (Around 13:10)

Hello Martin, Have you found a setting to adjust the screen dim timeout. Right now the screen dims to fast. Thank you. Ron

So I am an engineer student, and more or less need a calculator with good matrices equations solver, integrals and partial derivates solver. Basically really good and fast CAS. How does it stand against a CX CAS. I am considering HP since it is cheaper.

can you choose if you want all your answers in fractions or decimals? like the tin spire?

Great video, very thorough, and appreciate the 720p HD. But you might do a manual white-balance next time, because the video does have a yellowish cast to it. At 12:24 for example.

not true, My TI-nspire I used 5-6 hours daily and the battery is almost not discharged. Depends if one does not know the right set-up the, it may happen.

Is there a rpn mod on this calculator?

How much is the price of HP now

So is this not made for Financial Calculator ?

How does this stack up against the casio fg cg 20? Some of the features, like the touch screen, are more appealing to me and it comes in at a slightly lower price point than the casio (in the UK). But I am already familiar with the casio layout and I would like to know which one you'd recommend?

Great video. Thank you.

These are made for hanging on pegs in stores like Kmart and Walmart where it's nearly impossible to find an employee to help you. If they put a zip tab on the back to help get it open easily, they'd have half the calculators stolen in less than a week and the other half opened up by people - especially unsupervised kids - wanting to punch the buttons and play with them. You seem to be clueless about the amount of retail product that gets stolen by shoplifters. It's staggering.

Is HP Prime graphing calculator the newest calculator , newer than all other ones? or is there another newer than HP Prime?

Can you make algorithms on the Prime?

Does it work with them ( Vectors ) now?

Hi vblogmag, what kind of the hardware version of your calculator? Is it A, C, or D version?

RE: HP Prime Graphing Calculator. In your video the digits of the equation you entered look very clear, however compared to the size of the screen and having estimated the dimensions of the screen the digits on the screen seem too small for easy reading in reality. Could you please comment on that. I am thinking of buying one, however I do not have access to one to look at before I buy so it is important that I find out beforehand. Thanks, George Goldsteen Tasmania, Australia

My Prime came with 2 user manuals, one is spanish and then the same exact one in spanish so I have no idea how to work this thing...

Nice..... but at kinda odd. It really doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. For almost every daily calculation you can use a cheap TI 30 or 36 that is cheap and very durable with AMAZING battery life (Hell, I still love my Casio FX 7000G, great keyboard) If setup for complex number is an issue there are just too many fantastic phone/tablet apps that are better, faster and more intuitive to use then shelling out a large amount of money on one of these, unless test use is the issue of course.

Can it 3D graph z^2 - x^2 + y^2 = 1 ??? I have a nspire cx cas....and it can not.

It appears I'm wrong. I'm going to give the Prime a second look.

You've had your HP Prime for a while, so what's the verdict? Like, Love, Dislike?

How do you put it in the basic calculation mode?

Good video, thanks. Do I detect a SA accent there?

$130 is tough on the student budget, unfortunately. Should start saving, or I might have to wait for Christmas.

I'm kinda leaning towards this HP Prime. Anybody know some disadvantages it has to the TI Nspire not mentioned in the video?

In 1971 I had a slide rule.

Also are they ever going to add 3D graphing out of box?

So...will it run Megaman?

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