We have a real treat today!

A viewer, a home amateur calculator reviewer, sent me in a calculator I have never seen before

This is the Gaxio!

And they emailed and said: "Have you ever seen a Gaxio"

I said I had not, and they got this shipped to me direct from the Gaxio warehouse

Wherever that may be

And so on the front you can see, it's a Gaxio FG-82MS, very nice

This is a scientific calculator

On the back, you have all the options labeled

It comes... it comes with a slide-on hard case™

Loving that and...

Oh, down at the bottom there - Made in China

Some of you may think the Gaxio is a little bit familiar, looks vaguely like something you have seen before

Well, I have here our previous review we did of a Casio - a member of the FX series

and you can see - a surprising similiarities, look at that

They're pretty much the same calculator, just in different packaging

one's in a slightly cheaper packet than the other

Other fact - you're now watching an unboxing video in an unboxing video

Now, blatantly the calculators cannot accidentally be this similar

when I saw this it just sent ripples through the calculator fancier community, everyone's outraged

I mean, surely if you're designing a calculator at least design your own calculator

Don't just rip off someone else's making a cheap version of the calculator

I mean, we are outraged. I will not let this go down

I... I am I could not believe that Casio just ripped off Gaxio's fantastic design

So let's get in there and see what the original has to offer

Now, I am a little hesitant to break the package, I don't want to have to cut into it

If only it came with a little tab so I could open it

Aah! Here we go, look at that, so I can pop that open there

Look at it just slid out! What an action! There's, aah, the inst--

Oo! The instructions are bound.

So often, I open a calculator, the instructions fly one way, calculator the other, I never match them back up again

This, it's all contained, very nice. Put that over there

OK, let's pop the packet open and we have...

(Drum roll please)

OK, so there's the calculator and that slide on hard case

OK, so you can see already,

this covers a variety of models, so if you own any of these

And obviously, you're going to have more than one Gaxio around the place,

you can just look them up in there,

very unfortunately it's for the various FX models

and what we have here is actually the Gaxio FG-82MS, not covered by this set of instructions

Now, you might think this is very suspicious that the Gaxio FG series calculator

comes with instructions something labeled the FX series and it's Casio as we know who

made the FX series of calculators

OK so that case did indeed slide off hard... and, oh, here there's the inset in there

and you can see they've not glued it in properly, so if you decide

you want to remove it and stick it to the outside... like so, that is entirely...

Oh, I didn't quite... OK, you get the idea anyways

Look at this, this is the FG series classic, that's good

High quality manufacturing as only Gaxio can do

OK, I don't know who quality control person 28 are but whoever he or she is,

they know a perfect calculator when they see one

Right, let's take this thing out for a spin

2 square root... oh it's around the wrong way oh my goodness

OK, O... OK hang on, so... so, 2 square root equals... nice

Times 2... oh OK. so they know if you're typing 2 a second time

you know what you've typed, why waste an entire part of the display

when they can show you a fraction of it, that.. they've simplified it

Even down here, they've taken chunks off this number here, so you don't need all those extra digits

and you can see, everyone knows the square root of 2 is 1.411... whatever that is... 13

OK, here we go! 2, equals 31.11... something...ok

*dies of laughter*

OK, OK, hang on, hang on

OK, I'm gonna be honest with you here 31.11... whatever that is... is not quite... 2

But it's not 1.999, so... you know... it's... it's gone different...

In all new and creative ways

let's try something

a bit more down the line, let's put in π, so we've got π down here,

OK, shift, π, excellent!

And let's just try multiplying it by one to see if it can do that

Equals 3.141... something... 9 OK OK OK that's OK, that's not so bad

Let's try dividing by 0 and see what happens here

1 divide 0 equals...

That's... it has a Meth ERROR

so you... this calculator's had too much meth

So when I was testing the inferior knockoff Casio FX

I tried the square root of 17

Square root of 17

you simply type square root of 17 you hit equals and it tells you that it's the square root of 17

So let's see how this one does with that square root of 17 equals... a number

OK, let's multiply that by the square root of 17 and that equals...

Hey, hey! Hey I did it!

OK, I'm doubting myself, I'm gonna to redo root 2 times root 2

equals... two!

What did I do before?

Obviously, the first calculation out of the box is just a warmup calculation,

where it gives you a random kind of test... calibration number

Now it's it's... it's... it's actually I can feel it is genuinely it's heating up

It's now warmed up and ready to go

So as a whole it's quite...

it's got quite a nice hand feel, I mean it's got these these kind of wings, which... which is sweet

And... I mean the Casio calculators,

They're reasonably heavy, they've got what feels like a lot of plastic

Whereas these

I mean the Gaxio, it's environmentally friendly

it doesn't use any more plastic than absolutely necessary

It's got a real light kind of... you know...

"could go at any moment" feel

And I... I appreciate that dedication to efficiency in manufacturing

Final scores for the imported Gaxio FX... oh, sorry

FG, none of that knockoff Casio rubbish

FG 82-MS

For display it's got a good display, bits of it seem to come and go all the time though,

so I'm going to give it an 8... or rather most of an 8

For functionality, it's got everything I need that would be an 8

For acuracy, ooh, I wanted to give it a higher score, but it's not quite there every now and then

so I'll... I'll drop the 10 down to an 8

Ergonomics: works well in both hands, I reckon around an 8

For cred, I mean it's got the Gaxio name, what more do you need? That's an 8

And for durability

*sound of calculator on calculator violence*

Obviously, an 8

That gives us a total score of 888

OK, that's it. Look we're going to very quickly check that in the instructions

so you can see here... uhm... it's not the English bit... Chinese... Chinese... Chinese...

No English

No other languages

OK, so normally they have every possible language,

here, unless you're fluent in Chinese symbols... No luck. That's... that's the Gaxio attention to detail.