Ti-84 Evo

aaronbrethorst

$160 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI84-TI-Calculator/... Not as bad as I would've expected. Also, apparently it includes a very simple Python environment? https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/eguides/eguide...

eiiot

Interesting that this doesn't seem to include a computer algebra system like the Nspire CAS. Wonder if it's a testing environment compliance thing?

mettamage

It runs Python! National exams will be wild for the kids capable of programming or vibe coding.

guizzy

> Built to be a reliable learning tool, not a distraction 15 year old me in math class programming my loaned TI-82: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Yossarrian22

Ti really needs to stop with the artificial product differentiation. There's no reason 15 years after the Nspire CX CAS came out that everyone of their calculators can't do CAS.

JoshTriplett

> Not just an upgrade — an EVOlution Oh no.

moffkalast

Genuine question, who uses these in practice? In my experience, calculators beyond the basic were always banned in high school and college, cause everyone's so afraid people might store something into them, and afterwards it's just matlab and python. It's not like laptops aren't a thing that everyone has on hand.

LeoPanthera

What calculators are you guys using that aren't in academia anymore and don't need the "exam approved" limitations? Or are we all just using software on our computers now. That would be sad. (I've had a Casio fx-991EX on my desk for a few years, that replaced a broken Casio fx-991ES. Though designed for academia, its operation is burned into my brain at this point.)

wyre

It has Python? That's pretty cool.

cyanureworld

There's the NumWorks which is very similar for a more reasonable price, that also run Python

pclowes

75” 4k OLED screens would have been unobtainable when I first used a TI. 10yrs ago they would have been 4 to 5 figures. Now they are what? A couple hundred? How in the world is a TI graphing calculator still $160? These 30yr old calculator chips apparently hold their value like gold…

Yeri

What's the "online calculator license" ? "Online calculator included (four-year subscription) •($80 value)"

lvl155

Biggest ripoff in academics. There should be a cheap open source calculators for schools and exams. It’s ridiculous that TI is still charging this.

vvpan

We had to buy those calculators for highschool and it was a waste of money, felt like somebody must be paying somebody off to have thousands of students buy a device that they will certainly never have to use (and is of little educational value).

palmotea

> Simplified keypad > The keypad layout removes clutter and makes commands and shortcuts easier to see, so you can work faster with fewer steps. I don't see it. I compared a screenshot of one of these to a older T-84, and it looks like they have same number of buttons, and the buttons are just as cluttered (except the EVO has secondary labels on the keycaps instead of the case). That's a good thing, since one of the best things about calculators is they typically have a ton of buttons for quick access to a lot of functions.

esafak

It's a shame that maths in American schools is equated with calculation. All you need to be a mathematician is a calculator!

wslh

Looking at the price of this and other calculators, I wonder if there's a market for "dumb calculators" analogous to dumb terminals: a device with the calculator form factor, keyboard, and display, but where the actual computation happens on a paired computer/phone or a cloud endpoint over WiFi/Bluetooth.

kristopolous

Show me a highschool math problem you can't do on a $12 Casio scientific like the classic FX-300MS https://www.usaofficemachines.com/csofx300ms-fx-300ms-scient... There's even knockoffs of it for $1: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809744184708.html I picked one up when the 99 cent store was shutting down. It works fine. Look what you can get for $20: https://www.casio.com/intl/scientific-calculators/product.FX... TI is like the Intuit of the education world. I want to love them but this is ridiculous - a N4120 celeron laptop is the same price as this new calculator - it might be a garbage laptop but it's doing a heck of a lot more for your $160 than this calculator is.

chaqchase

Nice to see the hardware move forward. I still wish calculators were more open, or at least less locked into school-age pricing.

nxobject

And those goddamn displays still have the pixel density of a Tamagotchi.