Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView Scientific Calculator..
Buy Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView Scientific Calculator By Texas Instruments
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53 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
By ScooterJohn
I recently got this exact calculator as I started up my Electronics college course. It's been nothing but amazing for me. Viewing multiple problems and answers at a time is good, but browsing your entire history with the arrow pad is great.
It intuitive too. While brosing through my previous entries, I found a few different answers that I wanted to plug in together and get the sum. I browsed my way up to one, and on a guess, hit ENTER. It placed that number in my new problem at the bottom. Okay, lets see if it will do it again... I hit PLUS, then browsed up and got another old answer. It not only remembered what I'd input so far on the new problem, but put my next selection exactly where I hoped! All this is probably in the manual, but this is so well designed, there are many cases like this example where things just work out the way I think they should.
One negative on this calculator is the CLEAR button and the DELETE button. I'm glad they spaced them apart, but they put the CLEAR button where I would think they'd put DELETE. And vice versa. I've looked at other Texas Instrument calculators, and this seems to be the convention... maybe it's just me.
I appreciate their use of the button "x10^n" instead of the "EE" button. I had no idea what EE would be without finding it in the manual, but I knew right away what to expect when I hit x10^n.
Lastly, this calculator's design and wording have been a great stepping stone for me, to get past the gap between dinky little arithmatic calculators and heavy-duty graphing calculators.
Highly recommended. Incredible buy.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
By NRT
I really love this calculator. The screen is larger than normal-sized scientific calculators and Texas Instruments is a very good brand. It definitely allows me to do my work much faster, which is especially helpful on tests.
PROS:
Ability to see other variations of the same answer
Solar and battery powered
Worked out of the pkg, no batteries needed
Nice size buttons for big thumbs
Comes with a small manual that shows you some basics
Ability to see previous calculations (up to 14, I think)
Lightweight
Seems very durable, come with a cover
"Mathprint" view of inputted calculations [LOVE THIS!]
Contrast control of screen
CONS:
No other color options offered, only blue
A little big, about 6.5" tall and 3.5" wide
It is definitely a bargain at the price being offered if you do not need graphing capabilities! I have been very pleased.
86 of 115 people found the following review helpful.
By Gearhead Mania
Update 27 FEB 2014: After 6 years, I still feel the FX-115ES and TI-36X Pro are better calculators than this TI-30XS MultiView.
Update: I wanted to add that the Casio FX-115ES is a SCIENTIFIC AND NON-GRAPHING CALCULATOR (same class as the TI-30XS MultiView) that handles everything the TI-30XS Multiview fails to cover such as integrals, derivatives, complex numbers, phasors, different log bases AND matrices.
I had been researching calculators for use on standardized exams now that many of the graphing calculators are banned.
The HP 33/35 calculators are too expensive and too "antiquated" to be of any use to me. I liked the TI-30XS MultiView because of the large display, but I later found out the 30XS MV lacked many features found on the Casio FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator and even other TI graphing calculators. After evaluating the FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator and TI-30XS MV, I came to the conclusion that the FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator is by FAR the superior calculator.
The TI-30XS MV is too basic of a calculator. I'd recommend it for elementary school use, perhaps even for algebra. For example it is unable to evaluate integrals or differentials and there is no direct option to select different logarithm bases using the 30XS (every second counts on a timed exam and I'd rather buy a scientific non-graphing calculator that handles different logarithmic bases directly). The 30XS also lacks the ability to process matrices which the Casio FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator does process. The 30XS does not recognize the imaginary domain, hence the lack of "i" or "j" (try to do square root of -1). This makes the 30XS useless for engineers that have to deal with the imaginary domain for vectors, polar math, etc... especially on timed exams. That reminds me, the 30XS cannot handle phasor angles intuitively. There's a whole menu system for angles that I have yet to figure out. One would imagine the creator of the TI-8x graphing calculators would make a half-way decent scientific calculator, but instead we end up with a children's calculator. In case you haven't noticed, the Casio FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator is clearly superior and performs many functions that are omitted on the TI-30XS.
Pros: Affordable scientific calculator, dual-power supply (Solar and battery), TI interface (intuitive for existing TI users), nice display
Cons: Funky hard-cover (doesn't slide in place like all other TI calculators), lack of a large number of important features. There's also a limit to how many characters or instructions you can put into a single line. I was adding up my grocery list and it ran out of memory.
Bottom line: I recommend looking at the Casio FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator instead of the TI-30XS MultiView, although the TI-30XS MV isn't physically a bad calculator. I just felt it was a child's toy compared to the Casio FX-115ES scientific non-graphing calculator.
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