HP 19bII Business Consultant Calculator

[american lockpicker]

I'm considering getting one of these

http://www.educalc.net/1752487.page

Does anyone have one?

[Grant Lamontagne]

I don't know anything about something like that, but I'd have to guess that at a price like that you might be better off just getting a netbook like my Acer Aspire One or a EEE PC.  I doubt there's anything that calculator could do that a netbook couldn't, and the netbook can do a whole heck of a lot more.  With the calculator being about $200 (quick search shows new ones in that range) and the netbooks starting in the $300 range, I know what I would choose.

But, again I don't know anything about these types of calculators, and I am not sure what you'd be using it for, so I may be way off on this.

Def

[Grant Lamontagne]

Epinions seems to back up my thoughts on this one:

Pros: Very powerful, flexible financial calculator

Cons: Your PDA and Excel make this redundant

The Bottom Line: The 19B is an excellent calculator. However, you'll use Excel for anything you can't do on a 12C, and it's clumsy. DON'T BUY THIS IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE INDUSTRY.

http://www.epinions.com/review/pr-Hewlett_Packard_HP_19BII_Calculator/content_154381553284

Of course they say PDA, I say netbook... but again, if you need it, this may be your best bet.  It seems to have a pretty good rating, and what it does it seems to do well.  If you can't get software to do what you need, this might just be the thing.

Def

[turbov21]

I second the netbook.  You can get a decent Eee for under $300, or if you watch sales maybe even find a refurbished model for under $200.  I recently got a refurbished Eee off woot.com for that much, and it came with Windows.  Either way, though, Windows or Linux, you can install OpenOffice which will give you a fully capable spreadsheet.

[DaveK]

I'm considering getting one of these

http://www.educalc.net/1752487.page

Does anyone have one?

It seems like a bit of an odd combination to me. I can understand people needing a speSmurfpillst scientific calculator, and I can understand people needing a speSmurfpillst financial calculator to do amortisation etc. But I've certainly never met anyone who needs both!

[american lockpicker]

Really I've been looking for a calculator(my last one was stolen) and I like stuff that uses N batteries so this seemed like a good choice except for the price.

[jzmtl]

As far as calculator is concerned I'm partial to TI, used to have a 83, still have a 92 (although don't remember how to use it anymore). The screen is bigger so you can see more stuff, and you can download programs for it if you need calculation it doesn't have.

[american lockpicker]

My last one was a TI.