Why is everyone talking about the OS update problems ? I can't even find more than a couple of recent posts ( google Nspire group ) about this. One, the girl tried a second time and it worked. The second, the TI website had technical difficulties and someone couldn't download the file at that time. There have to be more recent and critical problems regarding this for you guys to keep bringing it up. Right ? Plus, if you purchased a cx it would already have 3.0 on it.
There were many posts from teachers who could not succeed in upgrading after OS 3.0 was introduced and their were posts on this scattered among the other posts on the Google nspire site for quite a while after 3.0 was introduced. You can read some of them here:
http://groups.google...5a6b0fbf9d010c#
You mention recent posts. Keep in mind that only about half a dozen recent posts show when you go to that site and usually there or three or four new posts that originate daily. Yes, many teachers had problems upgrading to OS 3.0 and I suspect that by now that they found ways to do it so they no longer talk about it. It is brought up because a similiar fiasco occurred for the last major nspire OS upgrade. That continues the trend of TI spining their product as if it is a panacea, then releasing stuff that needs to be fixed later. As someone mentioned they should take the time to do the job correctly and not release stuff that needs to be fixed later. Ti needs to fix that problem.
An important example of the poor quality ti stuff that hasn't been getting any attention is the npsire keyboard. GO TO WALMART AND LOOK AT THE SMALL CLOSELY SPACED ALPHABET KEYS. YOU CAN SEEM THEN THRU THE PACKAGE WITHOUT OPENING THE PACKAGE. THEN PLACE THE TIP OF YOUR INDEX FINGER ON ONE OF THE CENTER KEYS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IT ALSO COVERS SOME OR ALL OF THE ADJACENT KEYS! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? THAT IS A TERRIBLE DESIGN. How do you press just one key? That keyboard is very inferior to the previous ti calculator keyboards and I don't see how people can use it with out making a lot of input errors. Perhaps ti will fix that problem (perhaps) and sell you a new and improved expensive nspire but why did they come out with such a poor design? So that they could fix it later?
Keep in mind that the OS 3.0 deSolve function has a bug in it that was documented by teachers on the Google nspire site. So if you purchase a cx and it has OS 3.0 on it ti has sold you a product with a correctable flaw in it. Is that what you want? Is that the kind of company you want to do business with? If so go for it.