HP HP49G Graphing Calculator

List Price: $179.99

Features:

• Over 2,300 built-in functions for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics/data analysis, calculus, science, engineering
• 2-D and 3-D graphing capabilities
• Algebraic and RPN data entry
• Built-in serial port; supports optional connectivity kit
• Step-by-step mode for dynamic derivation, integration, and linear algebra problem solving

Accessories:
HP Connectivity Kit for HP Calculators 48G, 48G+, 48GX, and 49G	Tripp Lite SUPER7 Protect It! Surge Protector/Suppressor 7 outlets (5 Transformers) 7ft Cord 2350 Joules

Customer Reviews:

Stinker for most, nuisance for the few who need its capacity [Posted on 2004-01-31]
I have already invested far too much time in this product to try to be witty or clever about its poor quality and unfortunate design.

Power users may decide to live with its negatives because they can't find a portable alternative with equivalent math function and memory.

For all other potential customers, the HP49G gives new meaning to the marketing phrase, turning point.

Warnings: worst HP keystroke-touch for any HP Scientific Calculator; display harder to read than contemporary hi-end graphing calculators from TI or Japanese companies; documentation shipped with product would be comical if you could forget that you had just paid over a hundred dollars for it; first HP Scientific Calculator to be released with major reliability problems that caused it to crash repeatedly (but credit is due to programmers and engineers who have spent the last four years on bug fixing).

Friends show me that new versions of the 49G have improved. But it is sad to see the company throw away a reputation earned over three decades.

The worst of them all (how hp has lost its identity)!!! [Posted on 2004-06-06]
I'm a huge fan of hp calculators as a matter fact I've even started a collection of calculators. The real strenght of hp graphic calculator WAS the quality of the keyboard with the huge enter key, the RPN entry mode, the design and the huge power of computing and programming even tough the stack management is a little bit painfull at first. The HP48 is the real deal, the Rolls Royce AND the Farrari of all the calculators!!!!!!!!!!!
The hp 49g has lost those qualities trying to be a poor TI wannabe. The screen is awfull you can't see properly, the keys are soft and VERY umprecise plus if you want to use the RPN entry mode you have to press too many keys at once!!! So my advice is stick with the hp48 series or buy a real TI instead!!!!!!!!

Hardware too slow for software [Posted on 2004-06-21]
I wasted my hard earned money on this calculator. I was so thoroughly disappointed in the calculator that I gave up using it. It was a total and thorough frustration. For example, if you try to graph anything with this calculator, it takes a hundred years (a little exaggeration but expresses the idea) to finish. Even adding simple integers, the calculator would chug along very slowly (e.g. 3+13). Putting the calculator into non-teaching mode (I forgot the actual name for the feature) helped a little though.
What attracted me to it was the reviews here and elsewhere. There are some nice features to the calculator. The buttons are nice, the feel of the calculator is nice and the functions are fine as well.
However, it is in my opinion a mistake to put this kind of functionality in a calculator without also putting in the hardware to perform the requested operations in a reasonably timely manner. This calculator is not worth more than $20.

If you love your 48G, you'll hate your 49G. [Posted on 2006-01-20]
This one has soft rubber keys that you have to sit on to get them to register. If the key does register, sometimes it'll hang up and you can say "Man, this calculator really stinks compared to my 48G" before the number you entered even appears on the screen. The software is powerful (imaginary matrix algebra, anyone?), but the machine is a POS. The documentation is useless, and is divided into two books for even more torture! If dreams came true, the next HP calculator would have:

- Body & keys like the 48G
- A USB port
- The functions of the 49G, but with a faster processor
- ONE thick, well-written manual like the 48G
- RPN ONLY!!!

But dream on, because these are the days where high quality products are replaced with flimsy crap.

Excellent calculator... not problems at all. [Posted on 2006-02-08]
Excellent Calculator... just add the Documentation by Mr. Gilberto Urroz (infoclearinghouse.com) and rom 1.19-6 from www.hpcalc.org

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