My HP Prime G2 Long Term Review.

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Published 2020-01-20

It's been nearly a full year since I got my HP Prime G2. This video highlights its fantastic pros and some of its annoying cons I've noticed during that time. I go into more detail about it in my written review which you can read by visiting: www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-13055.html

This was by far the biggest video project I've ever done and definitely took the longest amount of time to write, re-write, shoot, and edit coming in at over half a year! I'd like to thank Joe Horn, cyrille, Tim W., and Runer112 for fact-checking my information, this video would not be nearly as accurate without them!

Music:
Book Bag - E's Jammy Hams
Cancun - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Groove Grove - Kevin MacLeod
Front Porch Blues - Chris Haugen
Swing Theory - Freedom Trail Studio
Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz

All Comments (21)

@TheLastMillennial 4 years ago

Updates: (11/30/21): Annoyingly, YouTube has removed the public dislike count. If you'd like to see the dislike count on this video, I suggest installing the 'Return YouTube Dislike' extension (Firefox, Chrome, Edge). Good news! Python is now officially released for the HP Prime! Just update your calculator to get the new Python app! For those confused about tags like #ABA or #B1S I've made a thread that explains what these mean: www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-15386.html (12/4/2020): The price of the HP Prime G2 has dropped to $124 on Amazon! Be sure you look for the model ID 2AP18AA to ensure it's the G2 model. HP just released a software update that adds support for a LCD refresh rate of 125hz ! Although the colors and viewing angles are still terrible, the 125hz display is quite a unique feature for a calculator. Stay tuned, I'll be covering it in an upcoming video!
@confucheese 3 years ago

I’ve had my HP prime since 2014, and have only set the clock once. I just checked the clock now, and it’s only off by 22 minutes, including date. 22 minutes over the course of 6 years is really impressive for a calculator.
@RENA0051 3 years ago

Man, this content is really good. Congratulations
@iwantoiwanto6080 4 years ago

I read your review in museum of HP, and I just enjoyed this video. Thanks man.
@icewink7100 4 years ago

It's finally here!
@furzkram 1 year ago

That was really helpful, i almost bought an Nspire but then I luckily found this video. Just ordered an HP Prime.
@theodoresweger4948 2 years ago

THank you I have had my HP prime for several years and aidn't know about the double tap, well done...
@mellowtube 2 years ago

I got my prime g2 nine months ago, (partially due to this review), and I must say, absolutely best scientific graphic calculator that I have ever owned. superb.
@tylerarrigoni7700 3 years ago

Solid review! Thank you!
@Me-eb3wv 4 years ago

This is the best review I have ever seen for a calculator :)
@JohnUsp 10 days ago

Execellent review. Thanks.
@yuls7952 4 years ago

great video , just what I looking for to improve my HP50g
@reinlepiku445 1 year ago

Very good and useful video
@profpep 1 month ago

Thank you for a superb in depth review, (I came here from the HP Museum site). I was looking to replace my aging HP48, (display failing), for daily use, this review has convinced me to buy the Prime G2. I'm a semi retired engineer and have been an HP user from the HP41CV, which I bought to replace a terrible, (for programming), TI59. The 48 has been amazing, but even though I have a spare, I don't want to carry it around any more, too precious to risk it getting lost or damaged.
@maxheadrom3088 2 years ago

The Ti 84 should be compared to the HP50G and not to the Prime. The best calculator HP has ever done was the HP48GX and I with they put the prime hardware inside the 48 box. These older slower machines have slow processors but that makes their batteries last months. The older 48 and 50 also enabled assembly programming and there are tons of very well done software for them including the CAS that HP later incorporated on the 50G. The 50G does not have the same buttons and case as the 48 (a pity) but is more complete. Long time HP users will always with HP had built their new HP graphing calculator on the 48 case. I find the colors on the Prime buttons (and text size) to be way too small and hard to read. HP calculators were used by engineers and Ti by high school students ... HP went for the Ti market and left engineers behind. People are already working on an app to make it behave like the 50G.
@gmnando 2 years ago

Great video! Thanks!
@mauronahuel6197 4 years ago

Buen video y muy buena calculadora!
@roderickmcleod4864 2 years ago

My top complaint for this calculator is its lack of a second parentheses key, this makes it extremely infuriating to put parentheses in after the fact, my next complaint is that when you select the fraction button it doesn’t put the number right before it as the numerator, but you might say that you could just use divide, but no, that takes the number and whatever it is multiplied by and puts it as the numerator. this may not technically be a problem, but it becomes annoying when doing chemistry calculations and laying them out visually, and these are the reasons why I also always bring a scientific calculator with me. Other than these minor problems though, this is worlds best calculator hands down.
@Luzt. 3 years ago

I'll have to get one just for the pleasure of it.
@xoio 1 year ago

Apart from a very brief mention of the Casio at the beginning and an older dated version at the end of the video, this otherwise excellent review doesn't actually compare the Prime with the Colour Casio Classpad at all. Which in my opinion is the closest rival, due to its full touch screen and graphics manipulation like the prime. In fact this review overlooks the Classpad and its capabilities completely. Can you do another comparison between the Prime and just the Classpad CP400/500?