Scientific Calculators

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Leery of"special edition"products, we regarded the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition with some healthy skepticism. As you could have noticed, inside the post-i Mac era, every thing electronic seems to boast cool translucent or glittery casing. While the mathematic and graphing tools are comparable towards the TI-83 Plus, the Silver Edition boasts considerably improved speed and memory. These upgrades make the Silver Edition a substantially enhanced graphing tool, enabling you to perform more rapidly and conserve a lot more of your equations and programs. It's silver--so what? 5 MB of memory--10 times that in the TI-83 Plus. Its processor is 2. However, the attributes in the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition are substantial, providing useful, powerful extras at a remarkable worth. 5 times faster, and it has over 1.

Leery of"particular edition"products, we regarded the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition with some healthy skepticism. It's silver--so what? As you could have noticed, inside the post-i Mac era, everything electronic seems to boast cool translucent or glittery casing. However, the features of the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition are substantial, offering useful, strong extras at a remarkable value.

Although the mathematic and graphing tools are comparable to the TI-83 Plus, the Silver Edition boasts significantly improved speed and memory. Its processor is 2. 5 times faster, and it has over 1. These upgrades make the Silver Edition a significantly improved graphing tool, enabling you to work more quickly and conserve more of your equations and applications. 5 MB of memory--10 times that from the TI-83 Plus.

Like the TI-83 Plus, the Silver Edition has a large, easy-to-read 64 x 96 pixel LCD that fits 16 characters and 8 lines. Altering the contrast from the screen is intuitively easy, as is the vital layout and graphing interface. Mathematic tools are substantial, including viewing equations, graphs, and coordinates simultaneously; advanced statistics and regression analysis, graphical analysis, and data analysis; and tools for engineering, financial, logarithm, trigonometry, and hyperbolic functions. The calculator is ideal for students in algebra, calculus, and statistics, also as those taking the PSAT/NMSQT, SAT I or II, and AP College Board Tests.

The most exciting bonus from the Silver Edition is TI-Graph Link, which lets you connect the calculator to a private laptop or pc and download programs from Texas Instruments' Web website (http://education. There you'll find thousands of programs and games for TI graphing calculators, also as a TI-83 Plus tutorial, electronic guidebook, programming support, and discussion groups. com) and from enthusiast sites like www. org. ti. ticalc.

The calculator uses four AAA batteries and one lithium battery for backup. Overall, the enhanced power, more quickly speed, and included TI-Graph Link for a remarkably low price make this a truly distinct"certain edition,"and we have to admit that the silver casing does look pretty cool. --Ariel Meadow Stallings All batteries are included, also as a hard slide cover, the TI-Graph Link software and cable, along with a remarkably readable 60-page instruction manual.