HP 50G Graphing Calculator

After 15 years, I lost my HP 48. I was quite apprehensive about getting a new calculator. I use a calculator for more than balancing a checkbook so, of course, TI was out. After looking at the reviews/ recommendations there really was only one choice for a real scientific calculator - the 50G.

The 50G is quite a bit faster than the 48 for the features that I use, and it has an updated serial port to connect to USB.

The manual contained enough to get me started. Though the "User Guide" is freely available as a pdf, it would have been nice if they provided the it in hard-copy like they did with the 48.

Where some buttons moved and some menus changed, the 50G is a solid replacement to the 48. All is right with the world again.

HP is king when it comes to hand held calculators for the scientific professional. This calculator exceeds all expectations for a value of under $100.
It is worth much more. The SD card was a needed improvement over the HP48 and 49 series. The data is now more secure. Even the case that comes with it is a nice soft leather. The programming language allows for split second calculations making the windows CE hand held devices costing $1500 seem sluggish.

This calculator does everything that I need it to do as a college student in two hundred and three hundred level math courses. My current class is a linear algebra class and this calculator does vectors and matrices very easily and very well. It only took a couple of hours to learn how to do everything by reading the CD User's Guide.

The HP50g calculator is the best graphic calculator for engineering students. It is very powerful and easy to use.

I previously had a HP48G that I used every day at work. When It finiall died i upgraded to the 50G. The only thing that i did not care for was that they moved the "ENTER" button from the middle left to the bottom right of the keypad. I has taken a while to get used to that. I LOVE my HP!

The best calculator for engineers, hands down. My 48X finally quit after 16 years of hard use, now the 50g is a welcomed upgrade. Wal-Mart has the best price !!

I have a HP48GX that I love, but needed a calculator for work and the GX is worth too much to leave at work, so I ordered the 50G after reading lots of reviews. Was worried about the keyboard feel, but this one seems good. I need to look into double-tap speed because I miss a lot of repeat digits by pressing the keys too quickly. I wish the enter key was bigger, well basically I wish the whole keyboard was laid out the same way. I use RPN and the softkey menus and it works basically the same. The equation library requires a few more keystrokes to get to and the bigger screen gets 3 more lines (to 7) on the stack. The SD slot and USB connection are big pluses also. It will work like a regular (non-RPN) calculator but I can't figure out why someone would want this nice of calculator and not use RPN. Once you learn RPN well enough to enter a long equation - you'll know exactly why.

The HP-50g is the all-singing, all-dancing, top of the line calculator for students, engineers, and mathematicians. It may be a bit much if all you want to do is add, subtract, and some financial calculations.
It is so full featured that you should plan on spending some time to review the several hundred pages of user's guide and advanced user's guides available from HP, and possibly also purchase a 3rd party manual to help you learn to use all the features it has available.
I should say that Wally World had the best consistent price for this calculator. HP occasionally matched it (I watched for a couple of months), but only met WM's price twice in that time, and their shipping charges were more expensive.