bit-tech Shopping: Mathsoft Mathcad 14.0 (Full Product)

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Rating: 4

Time with product: 20

Strengths: easy to use

Weaknesses: not as powerful as language based tool

Summary: I remember way back when I got mathcad for windows 3.1 for a whopping $50. That was half the going price. Now it's $1000. It's a neat tool. It's a piece of paper with a graphing calculator built in. You can do alot of playing around and it will nice presentation slides. But it's a toy compared to language-like tools like matlab, IDL, Scilab, etc or an actual language like fortran. And it's certainly not anywhere near worth the ridiculous price tag today. I occasionally use it at work. But I'm glad I didn't pay for it myself.

Rating: 2

Time with product:

Strengths: NONE

Weaknesses: Not responding customers questions and not responsible for refunding money after they sold wrong products.

Summary: The vendor sold me 7 Mathcad 14 academic version as Mathcad 14 Full Versions. The stickers on the boxes were removed, so this was only discovered once installed. I've returned the products with my own expenses and still waiting for them to refund my money. Never trust this vendor. They are not replying me back with all the e-mails I've been sending and now I'm about to file a claim to the paypal and the price grabber customer services. They never give you the phone number or what so ever. DO NOT TRUST THIS VENDOR.