Thanks for the comparison! You didn't mention the elephant in the room though: the HP Prime comes with a touch screen, the TI Nspire doesn't. In my opinion, this makes a huge difference in terms of ease of use.

Good video and solid comparison. As a person that's been using an HP 48SX since 91, the layout of the Prime is almost identical. You had mentioned button placement preference, HP is sticking with the placement that HP calculator users would be familiar with. That doesn't make it better or worse, just who the layout tailored for. I prefer the ergonomics of the numbers being at the bottom of the calculator but I use it mostly for basic number crunching.

I agree with most of your conclusions with a few personal preference differences. That said here's a pro tip for you. The viewing issue with the HP Prime could be easily resolved by adjusting the contrast on the HP screen. This is accomplished by holding down the ON button while tapping the + or - buttons to change the contrast(brightness) as desired.

Good Attempt Mr. Arrington, it is nice to see people talk about higher mathematics and the best calculators that are available. Unfortunately, you have compared the wrong calculators. The HP Prime compares against the TI Nspire CX II CAS ( Black calculator ) NOT the non CAS version ( White calculator ). There is a huge difference between the CAS and the non CAS in regard to higher functionality ( Derivates, Integrals, Algebra solve, Series, Systems of equations, etc - that solve symbolically NOT numerically ). The HP Prime has all of this the Nspire non CAS does not. As well, when you turn on the TI you do not have to open a document and add graphs or calculators. You can go directly to the calculation or graphing screen by hitting the scratchpad button. There is a third alternative for you to consider as well, Casio makes a calculator called the fx-CG500, that is a CAS calculator. It has some great abilities and a very large screen, but is a bit less powerful than the Prime and the Nspire and has a more limited keyboard.

Great comparison and appreciate you going into details about screen size and key presses.

The HP is kinda better in any way but TI always! had the better lobbyism. That's why so many people use TI calculator, even tho they cost the same or more and lack years behind

I wouldn’t even bother compare them. I would just get both of them.

Unless you need to be working with extremely complex applications both these calculators are not very user friendly. However, if you want maximum power, these two are it. For most people, a Casio CG50 or TI-84CE will meet most of your mathematical needs. And they are much more user friendly.

Nice video! I need to buy a calculator and decided to buy HP Prime. TI is not fits me after I reviewed many reviews.

For me, it is nice to have a TI-84+ as apk for android. I can use it for drawing graphs, and I also found an apk for the hp prime. The TI 84 plus fills the screen, for the prime I need a touchpad pen as quite small on the screen, but it has a working solver, the magic of calculators.

I need sin, cos, tan, degree-minute-second buttons, and many memory unknowns varies for use. It allows save the program and can export to PC, MAC, LINUS etc. It can renew the program. And Need more example. Also it can compute fast and the bugs can be fixed!

Really enjoyed the video.

The HP prime looks very promising, it seems to be very fast because of different chipset and if you have the budget to buy it, why not - but if you have a limited budget or if you want the real deal, I would recommend the TI NSPIRE with CAS (red colored with CAS, not the white one without CAS) and the Casio FX CP-400 (also a CAS calculator).

14:00 to move the cursor just touch where you want it.

The bird’s eye views of the screens are frequently impossible to read. You need to use fixed exposure that you set specifically to the brightness of the displays, and fixed focus, also focused on the screens. I don’t know about the nspire, but on the Prime, you can use the HP Connectivity Kit software on your computer to stream a video feed of the calculator’s screen to your computer screen, where you can capture it using screen capture software. (Or screen capture the HP Prime emulator, which is also free.)

Great video but I have one suggestion. As a person with ADHD, I find the background music a bit distracting.

I have both of them, as well as a ton of other TI and HP calcs (as for my favorite, the HP is the one that gets used). And I have plenty of Japanese ones, a few Brits, and some Russian ones. But I think that my favorite is my SwissMicros DM42. And I do like the form factor of the TI-92+, it is simply a thing of beauty.

Bad video quality. Can't see the screens well enough. Also touch screen is significantly more efficient than a non touch screen. Hp prime

My hp Prime (brand new) is nearly impossible to get out of the case. To the point where I’m afraid of breaking it when attempting.

comprare la HP prime :)

I dont knowvhow u got a working hp when I got mine it didn't work

I wanted very much to watch this video but with the calculator screens blown-out by severe over-exposure, it made it unwatchable. You can't even see what you are doing or what the calculator is displaying! Why didn't you simply use fixed-exposure and fixed-focus. If the there wa a disparity between screen brightness, that's adjustable. I really think you had a great video in content but maybe you can do an update and not have the screens blown-out so bad...

The video shot from on top is terrible.

Hp prime has issues with their calculators

The Prime is much faster, and has more RAM and ROM... and a touch-screen. It's really no competition at all. The only saving grace of the Nspire is that TI calculators are very popular in these United States. The graphs do NOT look better on the Nspire. That is a blatant lie. If you push the capabilities of both, you will see that the Nspire will flatten out curves whereas the Prime does not. He's also misleading you by clicking on the Prime to move the cursor. It has a TOUCHSCREEN.

Casio cg 50 has more functions than hp prime

both are hot garbage. HP48GX is still the very best ever made.