HP 33s

Pros: The case is great

Cons: sticking keys The "ENTER" key is too small & badly located.

Review: Having owned many HP RPN calculators & lost the last one I was eagerly awaiting the release of the HP 33s. I am very disappointed!
It had the following problems;
1. The calculator rocked on it's feet, to I had to trim the rubber off one to...

Pros: Very good value for the price.

Cons: Base operations need additional functionality.

Review: I have owned and used a number of different calculators over the years, and I must say that this calculator is impressive. But then HP has always made Great calculators!

The only thing I find lacking with the Base Conversions and...

Pros: Nice size, buttons are large enough and far enough apart to prevent "fat finger" errors.

Cons: Decimal point needed to be larger, I miss the 8 line display on my 7000G.

Review: I picked up my 33s a month or two ago to replace my aging Casio fx-7000G. Since I don't need a graphing calc any more, I went for a straight scientific model. Granted, I don't use a calculator as much as I used to when I was a student, but I still...

Pros: Size

Cons: Batteries died, too many BS buttons, Stack is broken(therefore RPN is broken).

Review: The title pretty much says it all. The stack works entirely wrong, and therefore, so are all of the benefits of using RPN.

Don't try and contact HP--that is a total waste of time. The site is horrific--and never the same 2 days in a row...

Pros: Quick keys for engineering notation and English/Metric conversion for common units

Cons: I wish the enter key was bigger. Kinda ugly.

Review: I love RPN calculators, and can't imagine life with an algebraic. That being said, I've used an HP 48GX for ten years, and love it. But I never used the graphics or programming capabilities any more, and when I saw what they were selling for on...

Pros: RPN logic, overall quality of the machine, fits my need.

Cons: Smaller enter key, small decimal point, a little too busy faceplate.

Review: I bought this calculator to replace my 32sII. I got very used to the RPN operation and although there are cheaper calculators, I still wanted RPN.
I admit, I don't use this machine to its fullest but for my needs (statistical calcs, easy metric...

Pros: RPN, improved display and keyboard, large memory

Cons: lack of multicharacter variable naming capability

Review: The comment by volney68 about the operation of the stack is wrong, and shows a lack of understanding about how rpn operates. Read the manual, and you will understand. By definition, when you ENTER a number it is displayed in the X register and...

Pros: Cheap,31k,RPN

Cons: decimal point small.

Review: The decimal point can be seen. What I do is focus on the patter of blank spaces after each character - you will see a definite blank space after all digits EXCEPT for the one that has the decimal point. Further,it is harder to see the decimal point...

Pros: It's the only non-graphing RPN calculator you can get.

Cons: Not up to HPs standards for robust and functional design.

The Bottom Line: If you must have a new RPN calculator now, there's not much choice. Hopefully HP will again make a calculator with a quality to match the price.

Review: This is my eighth HP calculator in the past 30 years -- a 65, a 25, two 15s, an 11, two 32SIIs, and now this. I bought it because the last 32SII's keyboard died, and a non-RPN calculator just doesn't cut it. Unfortunately, if you want an RPN...