Editorial Review

If you bought yourself a financial calculator during the 1980s, chances are it was this bad boy. Nothing has changed since its introduction--it still uses Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), is easy and versatile in programming, and has a thin, sturdy casing. Certainly, there's been newer, fancier calculators introduced since, but there's something to be said for the quality of classics.Read more

Features

• Over 120 built-in business functions
• Statistics and finance features
• Register based cash-flow analysis
• Long battery life
• 10-character LCD

Reviews (102)

Rev HP 12C
HP 12C is an excellent product. Robust, very easy to handle, comes with a nice leather case. There is a higher version of same product but only HP 12C and TI BA II plus are allowed in CFA.
Calculating making money
Money! Let's face it, that is what we all want and we all strive for. We go to school to learn a profession to get a job and make money.
12c and 15c - Best calculators ever
I'm really a 15c user, absolutely saddened to find out that it is no longer produced. All the good things that are said about these wonderful machines are true.
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Subjects:  1. Calculators - Financial    2. Hewlett-Packard    3. HP, HP 12C, HP12, HP 12 C, Calc,   

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We're definitely taking this along with us the next time we shop for a house. Though it takes a little effort to master the collection of financial worksheets available on the Texas Instruments BA II Plus, you'll be glad you invested the time and money in this fine financial calculator.Read more

Features

• Easy to use
• Performs advanced cash-flow analysis
• Advanced statistics capability
• Ideal for business professionals and students
• Slide case included

Reviews (60)

Easy to use, inexpensive calculator
It does take a full cover removal to replace the batteries, but when calculating NPV of my network of metalworking sites at [...], it saved me a lot of time. It's not as "pretty" as the standard finance HP calculator that's been around for ages, but at under $20 from your local WalMart, it's a steal! BTW, the cover is difficult to remove at times and the LCD screen is a bit underpowered (a LED version would have been nicer), but it's still a bargain.

BE CAREFUL
Be careful when buying this calculator.
Helping me pass my finance class...
This calculator is easy to understand and very helpful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Texas Instruments    2. BA 2 Plus   

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Pocket-sized and full-featured, the HP 33s Scientific Calculator is designed for engineers, surveyors, college students, scientists, and medical professionals. Its two-line display is easy to read, and at only 4.2 ounces, the unit slips easily into your pocket for travel.Read more

Features

• RPN and algebraic key-in logic
• Easy-to-read 2-line LCD
• Sturdy rubber/plastic construction
• 32 KB memory, 27 memory storage and recall functions
• Automatic power off

Reviews (85)

Only RPN calculator allowed when I took the PE
If this hadn't been the only RPN calculator allowed, I wouldn't have purchased it.I agree with all of the other reviews regarding the horrible "key action." In addition, in my exerience the calculator has a much short battery life than my older HPs, a general flimsey feel, and I had no confidence in the results of my calculations (due largely to the key action).I did pass the PE exam, but my lack of confidence in the calculator (even though I bought it and used it at work for 6 months before the exam) added a lot of unnecessary stress to the experience.
mr
you really don't need to buy this product if you don't have time to read through its text-book like manual.

HP 33s the 15c lives on
I have had this calculator for almost a week now. I am currently a junior level mechanical engineering major as well as a math/science tutor. I have four other hp calculators, the 30s, 48g, 49g+, and my favorite, a 15c. I have to tell you that i am a huge fan of the 11c and 15c calculators. I think that they are the perfect blend of size and functionality. I also like my 49g+ a great deal. Due to the increasing popularity and value of the 15c, I was looking for something similar that I could throw in my back pack and take to school with out the fear of it being stolen or distroyed in some insane scooter accident. This calculator interfaces exactly like the 11c and 15c. It has the exact same program interface as well. Programming this thing is fun and easy. It makes you feel like a hero to be wizzing through some of these lengthy formulas while others are frantically pushing buttons. It even one-ups the old dogs by offering a way to imbed messages and equations in your programs. It also can prompt you for variable inputs instead of storing the variables before you run the program. In short, I love this thing. I am shelfing my 15c for the collector value. Also, I understand that there are 20 some odd years of improvements between the 15c and the 33s, but it is funny to program in the same equasions and watch how the 33s instantaniously displays the result, while the 15c flashes "running" for 10 seconds. Buy this calculator, its amazing. Learn to use RPN. It will make you smarter, lol, maybe not, but it will make you examine long math problems much more efficently. This is a great machine with a great lineage. Maybe it helps that I live in Corvallis Oregon where the 10c series was birthed and have talked to some of the engineers who built these things, but i love them. If you are looking to put away a vintage calculator that is increasing in value without learning a whole new operating system, or are in the market for a super fast super versitile programmable scientific calculator, this is your best bet. Don't wait till the FE exam to get it. You can master programming this thing in a few hours if you know RPN, and a couple of days if you don't. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Building on the hugely popular TI-83 Plus, which is perhaps the best-selling calculator of all time, the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition is completely compatible with the TI-83 family. From that well-established platform, this new model adds more speed (a processor that's 2.5 times faster), an enhanced high-contrast display (eight lines by 16 characters), changeable faceplates (silver included), and a suite of 30 Apps. And with nine times more memory than the TI-83 Plus (1.54 MB of RAM, 480 KB Flash ROM), there's plenty of room for even more Apps and your own data storage.Read more

Features

• Fully compatible with TI-83-Plus family calculators
• 1.54 MB of RAM, 480 KB Flash ROM; 30 pre-loaded Apps
• Advanced statistics and financial features
• Built-in USB port and I/O port; unit-to-unit link cable
• Split screen, displays graph and editor or graph and table

Reviews (19)

A lot of hype, but it quickly fizzled
Bought this product recently based on recommendations for an advanced math/ scientific calculator.Apparently, TI has almost all the schools eating out of their hands by having classrooms make these calculators mandatory in many classes.
calculator is great; PC interface software disappoints
The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition is a powerful calculator with almost every function that one could desire, a powerful programming environment, and a well-organized keyboard.
4 1/2 stars
This calculator is amazing. I had to purchase it for sixth grade and i find it entertaining even though I'm not in school yet!The only drawback is that on the internet the calculator looks metallic although it is gray. Also it was a bit hard to learn. ... Read more

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If you need to keep up with your fast-paced business courses while working and planning for your career, invest in the HP 10BII business calculator. Featuring over 100 built-in functions for business, finance, mathematics, and statistics, the 10BII is an ideal calculator for business students who want to get ahead. Easily calculate loan payments, interest rates, amortization, discounted cash-flow analyses, TVM (loans, savings, and leasing), and more. Statistical analysis is cumulative, and you can figure standard deviation, mean, and weighted mean in addition to forecasts and the correlation coefficient. Cash-flow analysis is register based and has 15 functions.Read more

Features

• Over 100 built-in functions
• Algebraic data entry
• Intuitive keyboard layout with easy-to-read labels
• Adjustable contrast display
• 1-year warranty

Reviews (56)

Good functions, bad display
I bought this calculator a few years ago for a finance class, and it was easy to use and performed well. I am now taking some other classes that require present value calculations, so I dusted off the calculator. It worked for about a week before the display started malfunctioning. I bought new batteries as other people did, but that is not the problem. I also reset it in the various ways described in the manual, but the display was still malfunctioning. It is very disappointing since the calculator was not actually used that much.

PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY...
I have owned this calculator for 3 months and the dispay is no longer working properly.Parts of the numbers have "burned out" so only parts of the numbers show now.At first I thought it was the batteries.SO I bought replacements and that was NOT the problem.It is now completely useless.At $30, this calc is 10x's more than what a basic calc costs, so that is no excuse for such a poor quality product.PLEASE read the reviews - they all say the SAME thing.I was a fool for buying this.I hope this will help you.

Not Reliable, but highly useful.
Recently the screen on my HP 10bII Financial Calculator stopped working.At first I thought I simply needed new batteries, unfortuntally this was not the case.I owned it for just over two years before it broke down on me.So what did I do?I purchased another one.While I am disappointed with the reliability, I find it to be a highly convienent useful calculator.
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The HP 12C Platinum Anniversary Edition is a fast and powerful calculator designed for educators, businessmen, or anyone who needs a reliable tool to handle mathematical and/or financial calculations. With a 400 step memory capacity, the 12C can handle even the most complex computations. For 25 years, the 12C has proven its reputation as the ultimate pocket-size calculator for financial use. The 25th Anniversary Edition of the HP 12C Platinum is a faster, enhanced version of the industry-leading 12C, and is designed for the financial professional who demands more options. Its long battery life and small size make it easy to take with you anywhere, and its elegant black and silver design, engravable metal plate on the back, and leather pouch give it a modern, stylish appearance.Read more

Features

• Over 120 built-in functions for business, finance, mathematics and statistics including date calculations.
• Efficient data entry using RPN.
• Small size makes it easy to take anywhere.
• Long battery life.

Reviews (6)

The Gold, uh, Silver Standard in Financial Calculators
No, the quality heft and feel of the original (1981) 12C calculators made in Oregon, USA, is not quite there in the latest "Made in China" incarnation. But just about everything else is better than the original, including speed of program execution (3-5X faster), number of programmable steps (now 400), and additional support for Algebraic input mode on top of the default RPN. Now it even has an Undo function, albeit one of fairly limited usefulness, in addition to the fairly useful backspace function. This thing is still the "gold" standard in its category, with a silvery finish or otherwise.

Some kinda cheap look
I needed a financial calculator and I had received a lot of good feedback from 12c owners. This added to my experience with two HP calculators one 15c and one 48G, told me I couldn't go wrong with this special edition.
An EXCELLENT Choice for a Financial Calculator or 12C Upgrade!
This will sound crazy to everyone except those like me, but I have become an HP 12C FANATIC because of this calculator. I have gone through the entire manual (with the exception of programming) and thoroughly enjoyed learning all of this calculator's features.
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Editorial Review

Building on the hugely popular TI-83 Plus, which is perhaps the best-selling calculator of all time, the TI-84 Plus is completely compatible with its predecessor. From that well-established platform, this new model adds more speed (a processor that's 2.5 times faster), more memory (24 KB RAM and 480 KB of Flash ROM), an enhanced high-contrast display (eight lines by 16 characters), and more beloved Apps.Read more

Features

• Fully compatible with TI-83 Plus; now faster, more memory
• Advanced statistics and financial features
• Built-in USB port and I/O port; unit-to-unit link cable
• 11 pre-loaded Apps, including Cabri Jr. and Science Tools
• Split screen, displays graph and editor or graph and table

Reviews (17)

Just got it brand new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just bought this graphing calculator. It looks and feels very stylish and comfortable. I believe this is a better choice than the ti-84 plus silver edition as that version has a little more memory and a few more applications and cost about $20 more. I don't care about those extras because i only need it for my math class!!If you need a graphing calculator this is the one to get as it it almost identical to the ti-83 plus and only cost about $10 more. Buy this and you get a better screen, more memory, and faster speed!!!!!!!!!

TI-84 Plus
Much better than the TI-83 ... Great device, comes with lots of programs the TI-83 doesn't ... but now that I'm using it I would have rather forked out a few more dollars to get more computing power the TI-89 offers. For example ... The TI-84 can't compute factorials above 90 or so... Hope this helps...

not very friendly for entering matrix
It has many useful features, but TI has done a poor job on the way you can enter and edit matrix. They should look into Casio models for improving their interface. ... Read more

Features

• 279 functions, including 40 metric conversions
• 2-line, 12-digit Natural Textbook display
• Solar Plus power with battery back-up
• Slide-off protective hard case
• Currently permitted on AP, SAT and PSAT/NMSQT

Reviews (3)

The most amazing calculator for its value
For more than 20 years, Casio has maintained and upgraded this classic design (my first calculator, was a FX602FP more than 20 years ago).I find it terrific, easy to use for the casio habituee, and for those eager to learn it, there is no match to the intuitive way the functions are arranged and called for in this device.Amazing price, with dual power, cover and manual.Congratulations to the design team, for packing so much for so little.

Helps avoid errors
I agree with the views of "Anonymous" about this calculator. Rather than repeat what he said, I would like to point out that an important feature of this calculator is fractional input. This is important when there are complicated numerators and denominator (something like (45+ 6 sin(pi/2))/(sq root(1.006)*15.0987). Using this mode, the display type is smaller and the entire complicated fraction can be viewed in natural format. Not having a single line of type scrolling off the screen helps avoid errors. Usually, an entire complicated expression fits on a screen.
Best scientific calculator yet, but with some annoyances
This calculator does some great things: solve 2nd and 3rd degree polynomials (quadratic and cubic equations), solve 2-eq-2-unknowns and 3-eq-3-unknowns (must be in the correct form), solve equations of any form that contain 1 variable type, convert degrees/radians, convert rectangular/polar, solve integrals/derivatives/summations that have numeric answers, it keeps answers in "exact" notations (a result can show up to be "5/2 pi", and press a button to toggle the decimal value), it can do simple matrix operations on up-to 3x3 matrices, it can accept an "f(x)=..." and produce a table of values when you input the start value, stop value, and step (you must limit it to 30 results), and you can input a bunch of data values and instantly calculate the mean and standard deviaion. The screen is huge, allowing for menus that haven't been possible on previous scientific calculators, and it's easy to enter fractions with lots of stuff in the numerator/denominator.
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Editorial Review

Designed with real-estate, business, and finance professionals in mind, the HP 17bII+ financial calculator provides RPN or algebraic data-entry modes and over 250 easy-to-use functions. Its two-line, 22-character display is easy to read, offering convenient menus and prompts, plus clock and calendar. Read more

Features

• 2-line by 22-character LCD
• Over 250 built-in functions
• List-based cash flow analysis
• Alpha and numeric keyboard
• HP Solve customizing method

Reviews (52)

17BII+ problem
My biggest issue with the 17BII+ is the one that apparently plagues other users as well.My first and sometimes second keystroke doesn't always register.It happens randomly and is a major problem for me. I've gone through four of these calculators and three of the four had the same problem. I kept returning them until I got one that works.
Mediocre Upgrade
I bought the HP 17BII+ to replace and to upgrade my HP 19bII folding calculator. And for the money I spent (about the same, 12 years later), I'm a little disappointed. Going down from 4 lines of display, to 2 lines of display, the buttons feeling cheaper and the removal of unit conversion for measurements. But on the plus side, everything else seems to be the same and the battery cover doesn't look like it is going to fly off.

Very good calculator
After my HP 17bII was knocked off a counter and killed the screen I looked to replace it.I soon found the 17bII+ and ordered from Amazon.After reading some of the reviews I was a little concerned but mine works just fine.It does not convey the same feel of quality as earlier HPs. It just seems lighter and less solid. The keys have good feel but don't match the feel of the many earlier HPs I have owned.However, it gets the job done, and may last as long as the earlier models, but if you are looking for the HP "feel" you may be disappointed.The case however is a great improvement over the 17bII. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Calculators - Financial    2. Hewlett-Packard   

Features

• Versatile buyer pre-qualifying for conventional and FHA/VA loans to show homes within price range
• Complete PITI payment solutions to demonstrate interest only and other "What If" scenarios
• Amortization with remaining balances
• Calculate combo loans (80:10:10 and 80:15:05), bi-weekly loans, ARMs provide flexible payment options
• Easy rent vs. buy comparisons and estimated tax savings show benefits of ownership

Reviews (3)

The HP calulator is a dinosaur - this is mortgage qualifying!
There's not too much to say about this calulator - it does the job well.However, There's really only 4 buttons you use consistantly - Loan Amt/Pmt/Term/Interest.And they do make a calculator that just has those four buttons (plus calculator keys).
Real Estate Calculator
This is a very useful and needed product for everyone involved in real estate or that is a REALTOR�.

MY MISTAKE
I wanted "Calculated Industries 3415-KITRE Qualifier Plus IIIx Real Estate Success Kit" but received only the calculator and am still not sure of the right one to reorder. I found at least one but it had something about "Mortgages" and I'm not into Mortgages just Real Estate. I know from Calculated Industries WEB site they do have the Kit available and I thought I could surely get it from AMAZON. Maybe not! Hope so! Thanks Joe ... Read more

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