In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad

KermMartian writes "In what seems to be an accelerating arms race for graphing calculator supremacy between Texas Instruments and Casio, the underdog Casio has fired a return salvo to the recently-announced TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition. The new ClassPad fx-CP400 has a massive color touchscreen and a Matlab-esque CAS. Though not accepted on the SAT/ACT, will such a powerful device gain a strong following among engineers and professionals?"

Wake me when they have native RPN support

[runeghost]

I'm still confused as to why I'd ever want to replace my HP 48GX.

Re:MATLAB

[ikaruga]

Or at least Octave. MATLab is too expensive to put on a calculator and if you only want the programing language then Octave is more then enough.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[ipquickly]

Welcome to 2012 graphical calculators, nice of you to finally join us!

The first Casio graphing calculator with color came out in 1996. CFX-9850 [wikipedia.org]
I still have one somewhere.

"500KB RAM to users; appears to have at least a 2-4MB RAM chip"

I think this development puts the new calculators on par with PDA's from 2001. Just before the Treo hit the shelves.

It's like re-living history.

Re: No, it won't gain a strong following.

[TheRaven64]

I still do like the hp stack method though, especially for adding bills together quickly

If you want a calculator that does RPN, type dc into the terminal on any UNIX system...