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📣 hereforphone

Are any modern TI calculators as reactive as the TI-84 Plus?


I have a TI-84 Plus, and had a TI-89 Titanium. I never used the TI-89 despite its feature set because it wasn't reactive. I like to turn on the calculator and immediately start entering data, and that wasn't happening with the TI-89.

I see there is a newer version of the TI-84 (CE Python) and I wonder if it handles more like a TI-84, or like a TI-89. Are there any other (modern, and preferably rechargeable) calculators that I should consider?


  👤 stevetarzia Accepted Answer ✓
I'd recommend looking at a cheap TI-36X Pro. It's solar powered and responsive. It's not a graphing calculator, but it has the nice graphing-calculator features most people really need (movable cursor and multi-line display with scrollable history).