Title: Don't expect any customer support!
Product review: HP seems to be trying to put its retailers out of business, eliminate any customer support, and prevent access to the calculator "guides" which aren't manuals (or any use) any more. And the 49G's OS is full of bugs. That's too bad. I really wanted to purchase an HP calculator - I've had one since engineering school some 15 years ago - but now I'm going with TI. Awesome manuals, good customer support, no bugs, and a user-friendly interface. And there's plenty of stuff out there for download - engineering included. I'm now in the middle of getting a masters in Statistics. TI has a downloadable stats package, with pdf manual. This stats package can do much more than what the 49G has to offer (for example, generating random numbers from common distributions). What can you download from the HP site?? Just the connectivity software so you can download their latest OS, which you need to do since there are so many bugs.
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