Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX II CAS Color Graphing Calculator with Student Software (PC/Mac)

With the price point of new TI Graphing calculators being so close, from the standpoint of cost alone it makes sense to get one of these rather than a new TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Color, or TI-89 Titanium, since this calculator can do so much more than any of those other models. The user interface (in terms of buttons and what is on-screen) of the nspire series of calculators strays fairly drastically from the traditional TI graphing calculators, so if you are buying this calculator for school, you should plan to spend some time out of class getting used to how to do things on it. You dont want to be struggling through calculations when in a time crunch of a test, for example. I recommended this calculator for all serious math and engineering students. Im so glad I bought one.

I use this for AP Calc, and it is extremely useful. Because it is CAS, it has so many functions and can really help with homework if you know how to use it well. The battery life is a bit questionable however, as for mine, it goes down and up by 25% intervals. The battery only lasts a couple of hours for me, but that could be normal?

You can use this on the SAT! It’s so nice, and it works really well! It can help you solve so many problems way easier, and overall it’s such a unique and cool calculator to just have! The touch pad blows peoples minds!

Its intuitive to use and after 2 days of practice you can get around it. Keep the booklet handy for when you need to remember how to do some more exotic stuff. You can create and edit python scripts on it ,from the device ,and the python library has all you need. Doesnt have 3rd party python libs ,but you can add them or copy the files. This python capability comes in handy if you need to roll your own stuff to help you. Build quality is good and it doesnt feel like cheap plastic.The battery seems to be accessed by unscrewing the back lid so this should make battery replacement easy. Quite nice mini computer to have around to help you.

The TI-Nspire CX II CAS is a fast and powerful calculator with a CAS that, like the TI-89 Titanium, is fully integrated into the Scratchpad and Calculator app. Aside from CAS-specific functions, the user interface and menu trees are nearly identical to the TI-Nspire CX II. See my review of that model for more information.

This thing is awesome! It is a bargain to boot. Totally cool! I do wish the keyboard was a QWERTY keyboard instead of the A-Z keyboard that it has. So one thing needs improvement. The rest is great. I love being able to tinker in Python on it.

First, it arrived quickly and in very good condition. Besides the manufacturers package (with the manuals and an USB cable) it was also sent in a bigger box with plastic airbags, so it was very good protected. Regarding the calculators performance, so far very good. I used to have the first nspire CAS, and this one is faster from the beggining, it boots faster than the old one. I got this one as replacement for the old one (I had an accident with a cup of coffee) and I will test it further in the next days but so far very happy.

This is a very powerful and professional calculator. I have been using the TI84 since middle school, and now that I am almost done with college (majoring in mechanical engineering), I thought it was time to upgrade to a more powerful calculator, and I can say that I am very impressed with this calculators abilities. I wish that I had this going through all of my math classes in college. Getting used to the keystrokes is very difficult and will likely take years for me to feel as comfortable as I do currently with my TI84, but it is worth it. I highly recommend this product for someone that is in advanced mathematics (Calc, Lin. Algebra, Differential Eq, Statistics, etc). I would not recommend this to someone in middle school (and maybe even high school) as this is a very advanced calculator and a lot of its features wouldnt even be used by a middle or high schooler. I hope this helps.

Yea, sucks it cost so much

This calculator is amazing! This product comes with a key for the software to be installed on your mac/windows device as well. The calculator is incredibly powerful for graphing in 2D and 3D. I would easily recommend this calculator for anyone that is trying to self-study math or is reviewing concepts. The computer algebra system (CAS) is quite powerful. I see many students relying on this to do their homework in the calculus sequence... I would not recommend students who are currently enrolled in new math classes to use this calculator as this CAS is too tempting for most students to constantly use. The ability to program in python is really cool, but in all fairness most students program from their computer but save the file to the calculator so it can be read later. I love this calculator and would recommend this to pretty much any student in his or her junior or senior year. Most math classes in these years wouldnt need this functionality, but the CAS can help validate the logic of these students.