I'm taken aback they actually finally got it back into an attractive form factor, no offense to fans of the earlier Inspires but I always thought they looked like a portable label printer, the concept of changing keypads so it can turn into a ti 84 plus also seemed silly, what ACT really needs to do is come up with some way to get it so one model satisfies the ACT restrictions without making the student choose between 2 fairly expensive calculators (a restricted calculator that only serves the purpose of satisfying one testing companies extreme paronoia and inability to use the technology to restrict it in the ways classrooms can). The Document system is odd, yet somehow feels simillar to the older catalog based model of the ti 85 with a few specialized independent screens for the inputs... it further seems to borrow from the 92 /89 with use of function style commands which you put on the line to output to pretty print, overall fascinating calc
Older versions of the Ti-Nspire had a completely different keypad that lacked the touchpad, dubbed the "Clickpad". The mouse cursor was disabled unless the app or function required it, then the arrow keys would operate like a trackpoint on a laptop, similar to a ThinkPad or Dell Latitude. I wish they kept that design and just updated the rest of the keypad. movement was fully variable depending on where you pressed on the direction key.
In high school I had a ti84. In college I was suprised to find during physics exams that it could do basic derivation, matrix operations and more stuff that was common use with my nspire.
Thank for the review, it helped me not to waste money on this. The key layout is absolutely terrible. The amount of keys one has to press for a simple calculation is not acceptable. I acknowledge the capability of the device, but calculating a simple sin must simply not require pressing multiple keys or any menu navigation. Put the menus on top of a traditional calculator and you have a great device. By the time students have found the correct submenu the class has moved on!
The TI-84 CE is what I’d go with for anything less than calculus. This calc should probably be left for late stage physics and math classes, as well as engineering,
So I'm going to make an argument against your point. If you are a student working through a math class, the old style of dedicated keys and modifiers is fast, because as you learn a topic you'll use that function over and over again, and the two keystrokes will become second nature. This is probably good from a student perspective. But I'm not a student, I'm a person who needs a powerful calculator, but I may need a function that I rarely use, and then you're searching around the keypad trying to find the function, and then you need the two stroke combination. With a calculator like this that is menu driven, I can easily remember where the trigonometric functions are, and then pull up the one I want. I only have to remember one key. Same deal with the pi key. If I need a constant, I know where to go, I don't have to search the keyboard to find it. The alpha keyboard is definitely a bummer though.
@@boosterseat9967 I went all the way through calc 3, calc based physics, and all of my chem degree classes, and medical physics with my TI-84 Plus CE. Never wanted for anything more. Maybe for some advanced engineering classes, linear algebra, or DE a more powerful calc would be good. I don't think most courses will let you use more than a TI-83/84. I know we couldn't even use a TI-89 or any CAS calculator anyways. I went to a large R1 research University, so maybe it's different for smaller schools. Some classes even passed out 4 function calculators for exams, and we couldn't even use a graphic calculator.
@@littlejackalo5326 Fiar enough, some schools won’t let you use it, ACS accredited classes won’t let you use any graphing calculator, but this is a nice purchase, especially for engineers. Used it pretty often in internships and it’s nice for matlab (the syntaxes are pretty similar). Use it every so often during my current job.
To you guys complaining about the keyboard, keep in mind Texas Instruments tries to make sure all their calculators can be used in all if not most exams. The keyboard is garbage because exams have a rule against computers (not calculators), and having a QWERTY keyboard is much more akin to that of a computer. It's a really dumb rule and very outdated imo yeah, but that's kind of the gist
i have a TI-Nspire CX and it's a very mixed bag. some of the negatives are: I really don't get on with the keyboard i updated the firmware a year ago before i knew that ndless exists, and no one has yet found a jailbreak for the new firmware. Programming in lua is a hassle: you write the program on your computer and then transfer it to the calculator. If you're not using a proprietary operating system this requires ingenuity. Lua programs run in another event loop to the normal calculator. this means that you can't call lua programs from the calculator and you can't share data with them or get the return values from them (or at least, if you can, i haven't found out how). In general i find the lua documentation to be rather curt and i haven't found many programming examples. I've found it really difficult to find a lot of functionality. in general i compare it fairly negatively to the casio 7000g i had at school. yes, it can do a lot more but i find the functionality difficult to find and sometimes doesn't interoperate. i found it much easier to do things like plot a graph on the casio 7000g. on the ti-nspire cx i could not work out how to modify a graph once it had been drawn. btw. i've just ordered a swissmicros DM42 :) hopefully i'll be happier with that.
If you’re allowed only 1 calc for calculus class for a 5 question exam and you’re given 30 minutes to hour to solve the 5 problems is this the best calc to get you the answers. From my understanding this is pretty much capable of doing all the work for you?
I loved the review! To be honest, I'm probably just gonna stick to an rpn calculator and wolfram alpha for rn. Saves me money and typing stress. Idk, it seems cool that it has all those built in features though. I'm just a simpleton ig lol
You can program in python with it, so you can personalize it as much as you want. But if you are a regularly person, who isn't a Computer Science or Mathematics University student, you might not need it, yes.
I have owned a NSpire CX CAS II for a year. I will be going to the HP Prime G2 as the NSpire has a poor build quality, the keyboard is terrible, and the document centric software is fustrating. I am an engineer and spent years using the ti-89 before switching to the NSpire. Seems like a huge step backwards for Texas Instruments. :(
ah i had the old n-spire cas in school almost 10 years ago. funny times with playing mario and pokemon on that calculator. why does this new one have these ugly stripes on the side though? Old one looked so much better, this looks cheap. Which one do you consider the best calculator on the market right now?
Yeah I've seen them for sale but there doesn't seem to be any information about those online. I presume they have extra teacher software on them? Not sure.
@Raymond Cai n1 they weren't talking about cas or non cas n2 cas doesnt help with complex numbers it actually helps with symbolically manipulating expressions
@@CalculatorCulture If you are referring to the "T" version, it is not a teacher version, it is only for the Europeans, and i can confirm because you can't find the blue version, only the red version (the "T" version) in Europe. After long researches, I've just ordered the "T" (red) version because it is the only one available here, in Europe.
I will never understand why TI never updates the menus or designs the menus. Casio 9750 G3 menus are so easy to navigate even the Casio class wizz scientific calculators have faster menu inputs.
Pretty shameless that they just rerelease the same calculator from 2011 (only with slightly higher clock speed) in 2019. Nowadays, even $50 phones are 10 times as powerful, there are countless free calculator apps, and you can even connect an USB keyboard, so who'd still buy such a calculator?
@@CalculatorCulture thank you, also could you make a tutorial or a guide about how to get and add programs and apps on the calculator and also which do you recommend the most? thaaank you
Arg, they kept the same silly keyboard. I picked up a cheap nSpire a few years ago and am glad I paid very little for it. They keyboard is plain awful and it taking ages to start up made it undesirable to try and use. I still much prefer the Voyage 200.
I recently purchased this calculator for my nephew to take the SAT test. Do you also provide tutor instruction or can you provide the contact information for a good tutor for this calculator? Thank you so much in advance.
Casio fx 500 classpad is easier to use, far better screen. And can change batteries and offers more battery options. The trouble with built in chargeable batteries is the charge capacity does drop, so a limited life span and the casio you can use rechargable batteries, so this alone makes it better
Having both an NSPIRE CX CAS and an Hp Prime I find their feature sets very similar. The HP has a shorter learning curve, better keyboard, a real touch screen, better construction, 10-100 times the performance, instant boot up and far more memory for programming in Python. The NSPIRE has a huge user base, tons of user written apps and access to compilers and Python(with latest version). In addition, TI calculators are THE defacto standard in virtually every school in the US. In summary, the HP is mostly used by professionals and schools in Europe. The TI is choice of high school students in the US(along with the TI84 plus CE).
Yeah it’s mostly for education market now. There are some new models though. Check out my video on the fx-991CW that is rolling out this year. Also the TI 30X MathPrint Pro is new.
@CalculatorCulture true, looked up those, but cheaper, and more scientific than powerful graphics calculators. These are now dead technology. As the smartphone has taken over faster, more powerful and can simulate any calculator
@@denodan yeah. I'm particularly interested how the calculator was a stepping stone to other personal computing devices like PDAs, laptops, PCs, smartphones and beyond.
I would disagree with you. There is no an engineer or designer in any firm I work with that does not have a solid graphing calculator on there desk. There is no engineering school that allows phone calculators in tests and all students have some form of scientific calculator with most having graphing calculators. And all high schools around supply/use graphing calculators and again no one allows phones in tests. Also, more engineering schools and high schools are beginning to ban use of personal computers, tablets, and phone in class, no exceptions. I have never encountered a single working professional in STEM that uses a phone app for STEM calculations. It is mostly today a competition in Industry between old school graphing calculators with calcs written out by hand and PC based document tools like MathCAD, Maple, and Matlab for doing/documenting work.
Yeah I think for 99.99% of people my channel would be the most comically boring content on CZcams. It does blow my mind and I laugh about all the time that anyone watches at all.
I fell asleep a couple of times during the presentation, but over all very nice 👍. I gave it a thumbs up but have some coffee ☕️ ready when you watch it
I'm taken aback they actually finally got it back into an attractive form factor, no offense to fans of the earlier Inspires but I always thought they looked like a portable label printer, the concept of changing keypads so it can turn into a ti 84 plus also seemed silly, what ACT really needs to do is come up with some way to get it so one model satisfies the ACT restrictions without making the student choose between 2 fairly expensive calculators (a restricted calculator that only serves the purpose of satisfying one testing companies extreme paronoia and inability to use the technology to restrict it in the ways classrooms can). The Document system is odd, yet somehow feels simillar to the older catalog based model of the ti 85 with a few specialized independent screens for the inputs... it further seems to borrow from the 92 /89 with use of function style commands which you put on the line to output to pretty print, overall fascinating calc
I never learned math so I'm calculator dependent, I love accumulating and using them. This is one of my favorite channels!
Thanks, that's great to hear.
Older versions of the Ti-Nspire had a completely different keypad that lacked the touchpad, dubbed the "Clickpad". The mouse cursor was disabled unless the app or function required it, then the arrow keys would operate like a trackpoint on a laptop, similar to a ThinkPad or Dell Latitude. I wish they kept that design and just updated the rest of the keypad. movement was fully variable depending on where you pressed on the direction key.
I still have my old TI 83 Plus from HS when I took AP Calc...and it's still great to use.
In high school I had a ti84. In college I was suprised to find during physics exams that it could do basic derivation, matrix operations and more stuff that was common use with my nspire.
Thank for the review, it helped me not to waste money on this. The key layout is absolutely terrible. The amount of keys one has to press for a simple calculation is not acceptable. I acknowledge the capability of the device, but calculating a simple sin must simply not require pressing multiple keys or any menu navigation. Put the menus on top of a traditional calculator and you have a great device. By the time students have found the correct submenu the class has moved on!
The TI-84 CE is what I’d go with for anything less than calculus. This calc should probably be left for late stage physics and math classes, as well as engineering,
So I'm going to make an argument against your point. If you are a student working through a math class, the old style of dedicated keys and modifiers is fast, because as you learn a topic you'll use that function over and over again, and the two keystrokes will become second nature. This is probably good from a student perspective. But I'm not a student, I'm a person who needs a powerful calculator, but I may need a function that I rarely use, and then you're searching around the keypad trying to find the function, and then you need the two stroke combination. With a calculator like this that is menu driven, I can easily remember where the trigonometric functions are, and then pull up the one I want. I only have to remember one key. Same deal with the pi key. If I need a constant, I know where to go, I don't have to search the keyboard to find it.
The alpha keyboard is definitely a bummer though.
@@boosterseat9967 I went all the way through calc 3, calc based physics, and all of my chem degree classes, and medical physics with my TI-84 Plus CE. Never wanted for anything more. Maybe for some advanced engineering classes, linear algebra, or DE a more powerful calc would be good. I don't think most courses will let you use more than a TI-83/84. I know we couldn't even use a TI-89 or any CAS calculator anyways. I went to a large R1 research University, so maybe it's different for smaller schools. Some classes even passed out 4 function calculators for exams, and we couldn't even use a graphic calculator.
@@littlejackalo5326 Fiar enough, some schools won’t let you use it, ACS accredited classes won’t let you use any graphing calculator, but this is a nice purchase, especially for engineers. Used it pretty often in internships and it’s nice for matlab (the syntaxes are pretty similar). Use it every so often during my current job.
@HobbitJack i
To you guys complaining about the keyboard, keep in mind Texas Instruments tries to make sure all their calculators can be used in all if not most exams. The keyboard is garbage because exams have a rule against computers (not calculators), and having a QWERTY keyboard is much more akin to that of a computer. It's a really dumb rule and very outdated imo yeah, but that's kind of the gist
That's true, although there are a lot of other issues with the keyboard.
Alternative keyboard layouts exist and I use one (workman) and if I could set it up I could use a desktop keyboard in theory
i have a TI-Nspire CX and it's a very mixed bag. some of the negatives are:
I really don't get on with the keyboard
i updated the firmware a year ago before i knew that ndless exists, and no one has yet found a jailbreak for the new firmware.
Programming in lua is a hassle: you write the program on your computer and then transfer it to the calculator. If you're not using a proprietary operating system this requires ingenuity.
Lua programs run in another event loop to the normal calculator. this means that you can't call lua programs from the calculator and you can't share data with them or get the return values from them (or at least, if you can, i haven't found out how).
In general i find the lua documentation to be rather curt and i haven't found many programming examples.
I've found it really difficult to find a lot of functionality.
in general i compare it fairly negatively to the casio 7000g i had at school. yes, it can do a lot more but i find the functionality difficult to find and sometimes doesn't interoperate. i found it much easier to do things like plot a graph on the casio 7000g. on the ti-nspire cx i could not work out how to modify a graph once it had been drawn.
btw. i've just ordered a swissmicros DM42 :) hopefully i'll be happier with that.
If you’re allowed only 1 calc for calculus class for a 5 question exam and you’re given 30 minutes to hour to solve the 5 problems is this the best calc to get you the answers. From my understanding this is pretty much capable of doing all the work for you?
Well it has a really great CAS system, so you can easily differentiate and integrate and do other algebra.
Strange you don't have a video on ti-92. That thing was a beast...
It’s on the list
Excellent and interesting review and history, thanks a lot 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I loved the review! To be honest, I'm probably just gonna stick to an rpn calculator and wolfram alpha for rn. Saves me money and typing stress. Idk, it seems cool that it has all those built in features though. I'm just a simpleton ig lol
You can program in python with it, so you can personalize it as much as you want. But if you are a regularly person, who isn't a Computer Science or Mathematics University student, you might not need it, yes.
I have owned a NSpire CX CAS II for a year. I will be going to the HP Prime G2 as the NSpire has a poor build quality, the keyboard is terrible, and the document centric software is fustrating. I am an engineer and spent years using the ti-89 before switching to the NSpire. Seems like a huge step backwards for Texas Instruments. :(
I love my t-89 no my daughter is using it for ap stats.
thanks for your invite on my nspire.
ah i had the old n-spire cas in school almost 10 years ago. funny times with playing mario and pokemon on that calculator. why does this new one have these ugly stripes on the side though? Old one looked so much better, this looks cheap. Which one do you consider the best calculator on the market right now?
It’s hard to say what is best. It depends what you will use it for. My favourite graphing calc is the Prime, but I use my SwissMicros DM42 more.
Hey, nice video!
One question. What's the difference between
the texas cas professor version and the
normal one (student)?
Yeah I've seen them for sale but there doesn't seem to be any information about those online. I presume they have extra teacher software on them? Not sure.
@Raymond Cai n1 they weren't talking about cas or non cas n2 cas doesnt help with complex numbers it actually helps with symbolically manipulating expressions
The yellow ones? They engrave the school name on them and they have GPS trackers so students don’t lose them.
@@CalculatorCulture If you are referring to the "T" version, it is not a teacher version, it is only for the Europeans, and i can confirm because you can't find the blue version, only the red version (the "T" version) in Europe. After long researches, I've just ordered the "T" (red) version because it is the only one available here, in Europe.
I will never understand why TI never updates the menus or designs the menus. Casio 9750 G3 menus are so easy to navigate even the Casio class wizz scientific calculators have faster menu inputs.
Pretty shameless that they just rerelease the same calculator from 2011 (only with slightly higher clock speed) in 2019. Nowadays, even $50 phones are 10 times as powerful, there are countless free calculator apps, and you can even connect an USB keyboard, so who'd still buy such a calculator?
Do I need this for AP stats and AP physics or could I just use a ti 84
You don't need it unless it's part of your school requirements.
do you recommend this or the HP prime for purely math?
Yeah I prefer the Prime mostly of its superior hardware and design.
@@CalculatorCulture thank you, also could you make a tutorial or a guide about how to get and add programs and apps on the calculator and also which do you recommend the most? thaaank you
Arg, they kept the same silly keyboard. I picked up a cheap nSpire a few years ago and am glad I paid very little for it. They keyboard is plain awful and it taking ages to start up made it undesirable to try and use. I still much prefer the Voyage 200.
Yeah the QWERTY keyboard and larger screen on the Voyage 200 really makes a difference.
the keyboard is prob because some tests don't allow calc w/ a qwerty keyboard
I recently purchased this calculator for my nephew to take the SAT test. Do you also provide tutor instruction or can you provide the contact information for a good tutor for this calculator? Thank you so much in advance.
I'm not sure how I could help there. Maybe the best option might be to talk to your nephew's school?
@@CalculatorCulture Thank you for the courtesy of your reply.
Did they let him use this calculator on the test I want it for the same reason but I thought this one was banned?
@@tyler7189 banned on act, allowed on sat
ti Australia's channel on CZcams has a full walkthrough.
How does it compare to the original nspire cx cas? Speed, storage, etc?
There is a good video about that on the MathClassCalculator channel czcams.com/video/8ajpILyguX8/video.html&ab_channel=MathClassCalculator
Casio fx 500 classpad is easier to use, far better screen. And can change batteries and offers more battery options. The trouble with built in chargeable batteries is the charge capacity does drop, so a limited life span and the casio you can use rechargable batteries, so this alone makes it better
Is hp 50g better than this calculator? Like is it capable of more?
I wouldn't say the 50G has more capability, but it works in a very different way, with great support for RPN and the RPL programming language.
Can you lower the volume down for the intro music?
Great video though
i can't change the existing videos i've posted, but I'll turned i'll lower it in future ones.
Is this calculator good for finance?
I'd recommend considering a financial calculator instead like a HP 17BII or TI BAII+ which will be simpler and easier to use for financial operations.
It has the functionality.
unintentional ASMR
I've always thought my videos would be a great cure for insomnia.
Is this calculator good for statistics class?
Sure.
i turn off the touchpad to save battery
That's a great tip. I couldn't figure out how to do that, but i'll look it up.
Does Ti nspire cx cas II has more capabilities than hp prime?
The CX II has more powerful document features but otherwise they are very similar.
Having both an NSPIRE CX CAS and an Hp Prime I find their feature sets very similar. The HP has a shorter learning curve, better keyboard, a real touch screen, better construction, 10-100 times the performance, instant boot up and far more memory for programming in Python. The NSPIRE has a huge user base, tons of user written apps and access to compilers and Python(with latest version). In addition, TI calculators are THE defacto standard in virtually every school in the US. In summary, the HP is mostly used by professionals and schools in Europe. The TI is choice of high school students in the US(along with the TI84 plus CE).
@@dadsview4025 graet sybthesis, hope the hp prime community grows. love both
i love this calculator it makes it easy to cheat on test😁
Interesting, how so?
Calculators are meant to calculate. Not sure how any calculator cheats.
Love the Ti-89 but the display is horrible and the font too small. Is the Ti nspire cx CAS better in this aspect?
Yeah the display on the TI CX is an LCD like a smartphone and you can adjust the system-wide font size.
@@CalculatorCulture but the TI-Nspire CX CAS display font is very ugly (bad)...
Please i want to ask you if that calculator can provide the steps of solution ?
I don’t believe so. I recommend looking at an online tool like symbolab, mathway or wolfram alpha.
@@CalculatorCulture thanks sir
The calculator is dead, None have made new models for years, as the phone does it all nowdays, and can emulate any of these calculators
Yeah it’s mostly for education market now. There are some new models though. Check out my video on the fx-991CW that is rolling out this year. Also the TI 30X MathPrint Pro is new.
@CalculatorCulture true, looked up those, but cheaper, and more scientific than powerful graphics calculators. These are now dead technology. As the smartphone has taken over faster, more powerful and can simulate any calculator
@@denodan yeah. I'm particularly interested how the calculator was a stepping stone to other personal computing devices like PDAs, laptops, PCs, smartphones and beyond.
I would disagree with you. There is no an engineer or designer in any firm I work with that does not have a solid graphing calculator on there desk. There is no engineering school that allows phone calculators in tests and all students have some form of scientific calculator with most having graphing calculators. And all high schools around supply/use graphing calculators and again no one allows phones in tests. Also, more engineering schools and high schools are beginning to ban use of personal computers, tablets, and phone in class, no exceptions. I have never encountered a single working professional in STEM that uses a phone app for STEM calculations. It is mostly today a competition in Industry between old school graphing calculators with calcs written out by hand and PC based document tools like MathCAD, Maple, and Matlab for doing/documenting work.
Interesting. I'm curious where do you live, and what types of engineers and designers you are working with?
chop off the shitty keyboard off the bottom, dont connect the fucking buttons, enlarge the buttons, and remove the touchpad and it'll be good...
Just get a ti-84 ce in that case.
@@EvertG8086 👍
Could not continue listening, "dead" presentation.
Yeah I think for 99.99% of people my channel would be the most comically boring content on CZcams. It does blow my mind and I laugh about all the time that anyone watches at all.
@@CalculatorCulture Good to know you have a sense of humour. (Your calculator skills are probably way in advance of mine.)
I just watch this video to 2x speed.
@@PentameronSV 🙃
I fell asleep a couple of times during the presentation, but over all very nice 👍. I gave it a thumbs up but have some coffee ☕️ ready when you watch it
What the deference between TI Nspire CX II-t CAS and the TI Nspire CX II CAS
There is a good video about that question here czcams.com/video/8ajpILyguX8/video.html
Nothing. Just a couple ports