I am debating whether or not to buy a Ti-Inspire. I have seen it, messed around with it a little bit, but because i was only offered 10 minutes or so to play around with it i only got a small view of its true capability. Here is what I like about the TI-84+: The programming capabilities. My teachers thought it was completely acceptable for me to write a program that allowed me to perform a simple (and repetitive) task... like finding polar coordinates given Cartesian coordinates, and vice-versa. If the TI-Inspire offers greater programming capability that could possibly allow me to program algebra, that would be lovely.

I would like someone here with a TI-Inspire to give me an overview of the calculator, try to sell one to me. Tell me what is good about it, and why I should buy it. If you can, please list me some new programming functions/phrases that are interesting/useful.

I hated the TI-Inspire. There were too many small buttons and I couldn't figure out how to differentiate or integrate (or if it was possible to?)

Personally I like the ti-89 the best.

I have a TI-84+SE. I hear odyssey is the best. Anyone with a TI-89 in my calculus class has to be watched during their testing.

I wish I knew how to program on my calculator. My teachers have always treated doing anything extra with your calculator as witch craft so I never got into it. I'm sure my calculator can do marvelous things, but my teachers don't just refuse to answer our questions and tell us how to preform said tasks, they actively discourage it and threaten us. I hate school.

My 11 year old TI-83+ is still going strong.
(I just realized that my calculator is as old as some SEN users and got depressed. Then I lol'd.)

I made an OS with 3 games and screensavers ;o

I'm going to put linux on my ti-83+
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145154.html

Unless you can still run the original OS, too, then it probably wouldn't be as useful, though.

Well, i have pushed my ti-84+ to the limit of my limit. (within the standard OS). I created a rendering program that could read matrices and interpret them as kind of "bmp files" for black and white paperdolls/sprites. I used this mechanism to create a very short, yet infinitely entertaining, rpg-arena sort of thing. I ripped sprites from final fantasy 1&2 dawn of souls. The downside was that all of the effects that were intensive on this rendering program were consequently very slow.

I was making 3D rendering possible, but couldn't find sufficient ASM math functions and don't know how to deal with FP numbers in z80 asm. >.> I had a BASIC version done (but have since lost it after two revisions), but not a pure ASM version.
I've actually done a lot with my little TI-83+ ...

Why did you have a TI-83+ when you were in gradeschool?

I have my... four-year old TI-83+. Works like a charm. Sad thing is, I lost a cord and can't throw games on it.