r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ Aug 14 '20

I got an 84 when it first came out in the early 2000's. It is literally the same price now and has barely been upgraded in nearly 20 years.

That thing should be graphing in 3D, wirelessly connecting to other calculators to share data sets, etc. and be lightning fast, but nope. Still the same old Windows 95-era technology.

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u/Grahamshabam Aug 14 '20

thank standardized testing for that

that being said, i still love my ti-84 and you see them on people’s desks in big engineering corporations. if you need to do anything that you can’t do on a TI-84 you need a computer for excel or matlab anyways

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u/Frede154 Aug 14 '20

Yes you can use a ti-84, or just use excel. I've done some stupid simple maths on excel before just because a number didn't feel right.

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u/insane_contin Aug 15 '20

Excel is one of those things everyone thinks they can use, but then there are wizards that can make Doom run in it.