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| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
List Price: $175.99
Buy New: $97.99
You Save: $78.00 (44%)
New (42) Refurbished (1) from $97.99
Rating:  147 reviews
Format: Cd
Color: Black Face
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 3
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 3.4 x 0.9
MPN: F2229AA#ABA
Model: F2229AA#ABA
UPC: 882780502291
EAN: 0882780502291
ASIN: B000GTPRPS
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Looks very powerful. October 29, 2006
Harry Pandolfino (York, PA USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm not specialized enough or mathmatically wide enough to know what this calc should have. I am impressed with what it does have. I became a fan of HP calcs several years ago. I liked how RPN worked and liked what HP's calculator line could do. I have not yet delved in depth with this machine. I too lament the withering of the printed manual. It's hard to kick back and relax in bed with a pdf file on a laptop. Kind of ironic that you have to use one machine to read the information you need to operate another machine. My solution to this was to just take the pdf over to Staples and have them print the whole thing out; it's worth the money to have a bound manual to consult, especially while working with the calc.
Amazing product November 10, 2006
super_tycoon (CA, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really like this calculator for its abilities and functions. It has even more features than the best TI calculator can offer, and it's cheaper. It has excellent variable handling, which I frequently use. This also has amazing programming capabilities, including programming on the calculator itself. It even can run C programs using an HP compiler. Everything about it user intuitive and the calculator is a dream to use. And the fact that has RPN made it very attractive to me as a functional calculator. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is in need of a graphing calculator.
Thus, you should just buy it right now and love it forever.
Fine Machine April 13, 2007
J. C. Randerson (Pueblo CO USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
HP finally fixed the keys of the atrociously defective HP49+ and came out with this 50g. With Flash ROM 2.09 installed, it's probably the best advanced calculator HP ever produced. With the new processor, it's fast, you can use RPN or use the great Equation and Matrix Writers. All the old commands of the legendary HP48 are still there, using RPN mode and -117 SF to help call up old 48 menus. Some of the new inferential statistics commands are outstanding, and beats anything TI has. 3D plotting is easy and fast. The CAS is quite powerful, with more built in commands than a TI89, doing everything from simple algebra to Laplace transforms. It takes a little getting used to if you've used to auto simplification, as you may have to use a number of commands to get your result into the form you want. The built-in SD card slot gives incredible storage capacity. For instance, a $20 256 MB Kodak card gives more extra memory than you'll probably ever need. This amazing feature is something that blows all other calculators away. Lastly, it is a handsome machine, with good colors. It looks professional, like an advanced calculator should. Any engineer would be proud to pull it out anywhere and use it. It is head and shoulders above the goofy looking, curved keys and softee colors of the TI89 Titanic. The only down side to this machine is that it's not an in-house HP product. It is outsourced, made by the Kinpo company of Taiwan. The jury is out on long-term durability and quality of this machine. All totaled however, I'm quite pleased with the machine at this time.
Review of HP50g Calculator May 9, 2007
P. T. Barrett (USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Finally, HP have released the true successor to the HP48g. The HP49g was an embarrassment best left unmentioned. The keyboard was perhaps the worst one I've ever seen and used on a calculator. The speed of operations was pitiful.
Now, the HP50g is here. Faster processing with the usual 100% beautifully precise keyboard as per other HP calculators. The XMODEM interface and software works perfectly with a Windows XP computer - no issues at all. Fortunately, my HP49g programs (mainly utility statistical and psychometrics) work on the HP50g without change - so some transfers mediated via PC were simplicity itself.
All in all, don't bother with any other make of calculators. This is the BMW of calculator products. High class and high quality. And it retains the Reverse Polish interface - along with a conventional algebraic if needed.
The one downside - the screen. Being so used to PDA and Mobile phone screens, looking at a non-backlit, mid-1990s generation LCD screen is not pleasant. I hope the next revision of this calculator will incorporate a backlit LCD/TFT screen; although I can fully understand the difficult trade-off between battery-life and screen-type. But, I really do think HP will need to do something about the screen next time around.
Until then, buy this machine if you need a powerful and useful scientific all-round major-league programmable calculator.
 Very powerful, hard keys, poor documentation, terrible packaging August 4, 2007
A. D. Davis (Nashville, TN)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've been an HP calculator fanatic for almost 20 years now, so had to have this as a new toy.
The Good:
1. This is an EXTREMELY powerful calculator. It's really unbelievable all the stuff HP put into this one.
2. The equation editor is awesome and it's a snap to enter and edit equations.
3. The leather case is really nice.
4. Keyboard layout seems fairly logical to me.
5. It's smaller and more elegant than some of the other large calculators.
6. It has RPL and algebraic (for those sick individuals who like it better) modes.
The Bad:
1. Somebody should be smacked for selecting a blister pack for this product. I think it took 15 min. to open it and I got a minor cut on my hand from the plastic. Would a damned box be too much to ask?
2. The keys are way too hard for my tastes. My fingers get physically tired after a couple of pages of calcs. I can punch the same equation through far faster with my HP48 simply because its keys have the perfect hardness and travel distance. And no, I am NOT a [...] with little weak fingers!!
3. They should definitely fire whoever wrote the pathetic little paper guide that comes with it and whoever wrote the pdf file manual.
4. The battery compartment cover is pathetic. It comes off waaaay too easily. What happened to the perfect ones from the HP48 and HP33s?! It is not a monumental disaster (like the HP28S's battery cover) because a small piece of clear tape completely solves the problem.
I am a HUGE HP calculator fan, but I'm a little worried that they missed the boat on some of these aspects. TI will put the final nail in this product line's coffin if HP doesn't do something soon. Diehards like me will go to whatever means necessary (buying used, etc.) to have our RPN/RPL calculators, but newbies won't stand for some of these little frustrating problems.
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