Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator

The TI-84 Graphing Calculator is the standard graphing calculator expected of high school and college students. Although it comes short of the TI-89 in many features, it's overall a great piece of equipment though a little overpriced. You might get a better deal for your dollar buy purchasing a calculator from one of the other competing brands (such as Casio), but because they are not widely used you will have some compatibility issues with your teacher or professor, who most likely knows only how to teach you to use Texas Instrument's TI-series of calculators. Of course, this can all be solved by reading the manual, but calculator manuals are 100+ pages and not very interesting reads. Laid, '80s age screens give this calculator an old-school look but the exterior asthetic design is much more modern. Much better than the design of the TI-83. The differences between the TI-84 plus and TI-84 [regular] are minimal, only increased performance (hardly noticeable) and a slightly greater compatibility with newer apps (useless if you do not download applications from the internet) allow you to tell the two apart. Both are compatible with the TI-83 and have similar [if not exactly identical] keystrokes for functions.Read full review