Rated 
Great for migration from a dead 48S/SX/G/GX
Included all of the same features that I depended on with my old (now dead) 48G.Faster than the 48G.Nice readable high contrast display, with 7 lines of the stack visible. SD card slot.Hinged keys
Ever so slightly wider than the 48g, but noticable. Really that's about it (after a week of use). I would have liked a bigger "ENTER" key.
Posted Aug 5, 2006 - My 48G died after many good years of service. I read the bashing that the 49g took and was somewhat concerned with the purchase of the 49g+. It came with the latest ROM already installed so I did not suffer through key debouncing or battery life issues that other earlier adopters had to endure. I created a user defined key to provide quicker access to the equation library (since this is now fairly buried) and I set some system FLAGs to make is act a little more like the 48G out of the box but that was fairly simple. I'm glad that HP made this calculator and continues to make calculators. If you had an HP28/S or 48S/SX/G/GX user you will immediately enjoy using this calculator and feel at home. One other thing is that the calculator looks very elegant in gold and black. I was never a fan of the 48G/GX color scheme (I preferred the brown 48S/SX) so this color scheme is much more appealing that the 48G. Small detail but still adds to the overall experience with the calculator. The manual are pretty much all PDFs which some have complained about. I think thats great since they can be searched easily. I'd rather have more money in the calculator than in printed materials as long as the PDFs are thorough (they are). I personally give HP an 'A' on this one. Your milage may vary depending on use but for moderate professional engineering use this is a good calculator.
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