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 Great purchase; just what I needed for school October 19, 2009
G. Kreger
I needed a financial calculator for school. I priced them in local office supply stores and got "sticker shock." I searched for the calculator on Amazon.com and was able to buy a brand new calculator for $20 less than retail. I highly recommend Amazon.com.
Just as expected. October 15, 2009
Ricardo Carvalho (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
HP12C is as good as it should be when talking about a financial calulator. It fits my needs.
buy this one, not the HP12C Platinum October 9, 2009
A. Rosenberg (lost somewhere in CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I work in finance and use HP12Cs constantly. They are, hands down, the best calculators I've ever used.
The HP12C Platinum offers three features that are improvements over the HP12C (which has a gold faceplate and which I recommend): slightly faster processing (though you won't notice the speed difference versus the current "gold" version of the HP12C), more functions (which nobody I know ever uses), and the ability to use standard notation as well as reverse Polish notation (but RPN is easly to learn and much more efficient).
The "gold" version (marketed as the HP12C without the word Platinum) offers only one advantage over the Platinums, much better manufacturing quality. When you press a key on the "gold," you can feel a click when the keystroke registers; the Platinum lacks this tactile feedback. As a result, it's easy to miss a keystroke with a Platinum (I've done it a lot) but nearly impossible with a "gold."
My bottom line is that I can't afford errors, so any calculator that is prone to errors in entering the numbers is worse than useless. If the HP12C Platinum were built as solidly as the HP12C, I would have given it five stars, but it's not, so I haven't. I strongly recommend buying an HP12C with the gold faceplate (the product you're looking at now).
Great October 5, 2009
K. Cole
I have purchased this product before and it was stolen. This HP12c calculator is simply wonderful.
Industry Standard October 2, 2009
Kevin Bohrer
Great financial calculator, this product is the industry standard amongst accountants and Amazon has the best price around!
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