Boub65 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm
akaTB wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:09 pm
I am in the first camp. Don't fool yourself:
new users of a reissue of a 40+ y.o. calculator are highly unlikely. Users of the DM42... well they already have the DM42! Do they really need something externally alike, otherwise they will be confused and won't use the DM41X?
I don't think so but, of course, this is only my take, so...
I am a HP41CX user using DM42 plateform, because the plateform is top notch.
So am I, then?
Boub65 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm
I only use part of HP42s capabilities, restricted to HP41CX programming subset, and lack time/alarm, rom etc... from HP41CX.
I am sure that I am not the only one.
But I will accept any design from Swissmicros for the DM41X... I just would prefer to stay close to DM42.
Not.another.DM41L!
The 41C is the 41C. I waited 3/4 years before a proper
portrait design. Don't piss it off with another abomination.
Boub65 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm
And if you follow the WP43C thread... this question of staying close to DM42 is also ongoing! And I am sure that Swissmicros designed their DM41X layout before the apparition of the WP43C schism!
That's exactly what I don't care of: variations on vapourware.
Can't we wait to see the WP43 materialize before pimping it up?
Boub65 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm
Imagine DM42, WP43C, DM41X and may more on the same platform, with just overlays to change ❤❤❤
A few times, when you get them, perhaps. Yes, to see how it all morphs into another calc.
But then? Do you think you will daily change from one to another? Or you will finally find your preferred platform and stick with it?
And why should the DM42 have to be seen as the touchstone platform? Just because we already own one?
Well I have 20+ 41s, so?
Let me have a proper 41, a proper 42 and a proper 43, please. I'll surely buy one of each, and probably more of my preferred model.
Peace and love

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