HP HP30S Scientific Calculator with Multi-Colored Faceplates | List Price: $14.99
Discount Price: $24.99
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Soft-edge keys and generous key spacing for easy operation
- Includes extra colored faceplates
- 2-line display
- Constant mode allows appending of equations
- Equation solver for simultaneous quadratic and linear equations
Complete Crap-Ola! [Posted on 2006-02-07]
Maybe this works great for other disciplines, but for engineering/surveying it is darn near worthless.
Unfortunately, this is one of only 6 or 7 cheapo calculators (including the HP 33s--another piece of garbage) allowed for use on the liscensing exams. HP, please, please, please bring back one of the following: 11C, 15C or 32SII. That way, I could use a calculator for the exam that won't let me down.
Unless you have to use one of these, pony up the bucks for a used HP (one of the models listed) if you need a good basic scientific calculator.
H.P. What's Happening? [Posted on 2006-04-29]
I am an engineer and a long-time fan of H.P. products. The HP-30S, however, is a disaster. It started acting dodgy immediately after I purchased it, and it ultimately became so unreliable that I had to find a replacement. Maybe I'm being overly harsh because of my disappointment with both the product and the brand, but I really hope this is an anomaly and not an indication of the direction H.P is heading.
p.s. I purchased a Casio 115MS as a replacement, and I am very happy with it.
Not the HP quality that I am used to [Posted on 2007-01-07]
This product looks good, but you should always be suspicious when one of a technical item's selling points is a fashion statement like a multi-colored faceplate. Dell tried this and dropped it -- too bad HP didn't catch on.
In summary, the HP30s is a piece of junk. The display started to have pixel failures after only a few hours of use. It is not anywhere near the quality of the old HP business and scientific calculators. I have a HP12c that is twenty years old and going strong. I didn't get 20 days out of the HP30s.
Easy [Posted on 2007-03-08]
I love this calculator. It is extremely easy to use and the value for the price is crazy good! A lot of people in my stats class paid triple for their calculators compared to what I paid for this calculator and mine is way easier to use.
Superb Basic College Calculator [Posted on 2008-09-16]
For the price ($17 in our university bookstore), this is a superb calculator that offers both a quadratic and a simultaneous equation solver. Since it is not RPN, the HP fanboys will hate it, but it does offer a lot of features in a small package and is a great competitor to the TI 30X series. The only one I might suggest over this is the Sharp EL-506W, which offers solvers and integrals for about the same price.
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