Re: us as a community of nerds

SC Usenet <sc_usenet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's still pretty expensive, though. At $85, I would expect impeccable
build quality. The TI BA+ PROFESSIONAL has a huge price advantage
because it only costs $35. Anybody know about its build quality? (I
don't have one, and I don't have a 17bII+ either.)

The TI BA II+ Professional is $60, and its build quality is fairly decent.
It's the TI BA II+ that is $35, and that has the same build quality as TI's
$13 scientifics. The BA II+ best competes with the 20b. The BA II+
Professional doesn't really have a direct HP competitor. Pricewise it's
comparable to the 12C, but the two seem to target completely different
markets.

The build quality of the new (silver) 17bII+ is quite good. It feels at
least as good as the 35s on the outside, though I don't know how they
compare inside.

I've used all of the above, and for build quality, I would probably rate
them as follows (0 worst, 10 best):
17bII+ (silver): 9.5
BA II+ Pro: 6 (maybe 7 -- it's been probably 2 years since I last used one)
BA II+: 4
20b: 3.5 (sorry, but although the interior quality is amazing, the part that
you see and touch is *bad*)

I'd probably rank the obsolete gold 17bII+ somewhere between the BA II+ and
the BA II+ Professional. That was definitely not worth $85. Case in point:
over a period of more than four years I sold only 7 of the old gold 17bII+.
In the eight months I have had the silver one, I have sold 22 of the new
ones.

Regards,

Eric Rechlin


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