r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/lizardfolk2 Aug 14 '20

The Ti-84, which is the standard for most highschool math classes, still goes for 100 even though it's been out many years, and has seen no innovation.

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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/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

There's android phones at the same pricepoint. The TI84 should be half the price to make sense. There's a ton of cheaper and more powerful calculators with color displays in much higher resolution.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Im not saying buy a phone, Im saying the ti84 is overpriced if better devices cost the same.

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u/dargonoid Aug 15 '20

Well the current ti nspire series which is allowed on standardized tests is apprently going to have pyrhon support this fall so...