Computer choice

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Re: Computer choice

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CaptnJack wrote:You might want to consider "intro to tech" (which has various names depending on the agency) before buying too much stuff, especially a $1200 computer.
Agreed - If you decide to go the GUE / UTD type route and eventually not get the expensive computer, that computer's cash could fund your entry level class and some extra gear! in fact, that could get you a nose to toes type BP/Wing system!

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Re: Computer choice

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Is anyone diving rec depths this weekend? I'm already Rocken a halcyon cinch BP with a 40 pound donut wing. Got about 100 dives on it and love it.

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Re: Computer choice

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I am mostly trying to get my sidemount rig setup on weekends (and freshwater only at that) for the next few months. Although this coming weekend has mother's day too, so unfortunately I can't do much other than a weekday evening right now.
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I will say that OLED displays rock, and I would never go back to using a gauge that didn't have one. That said, there are OLED bottom timers as well as much cheaper computers than the X1 or Predator.

I will confess . . . in as much as I know how, I am a DIR/GUE diver (with a UTD Tech cert :) ) and I don't do my staged decompression diving off a computer. However, I have found that the profiles I dive always satisfy my X1's VPM software. I let it run because it doesn't use up much real estate in the display, and in fact, I have to make a specific effort to read it; I figure if, someday, I end up alone in the water with a complete brain failure, I'll at least have something that can maybe get me out of the water uninjured.

Nobody has ever refused to dive with me based on the fact that my VPM is running . . . In fact, I'm pretty sure no one has ever NOTICED!
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Re: Computer choice

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json wrote:Is anyone diving rec depths this weekend? I'm already Rocken a halcyon cinch BP with a 40 pound donut wing. Got about 100 dives on it and love it.

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I might be down for this weekend. I' won't know until thursday afternoon but I still have your phone number I'll give ya a text sometime thursday night, and we can go from there! I'm already in Kitsap County too, how do you feel about Lake Crescent with all the crap in the sound right now.
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Re: Computer choice

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kitsapdiver wrote:
json wrote:Is anyone diving rec depths this weekend? I'm already Rocken a halcyon cinch BP with a 40 pound donut wing. Got about 100 dives on it and love it.

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I might be down for this weekend. I' won't know until thursday afternoon but I still have your phone number I'll give ya a text sometime thursday night, and we can go from there! I'm already in Kitsap County too, how do you feel about Lake Crescent with all the crap in the sound right now.
Sorry didn't get this until today something is up with my app on my phone. But I would be up for a lake dive sometime. Throw me a text sometime near a weekend. I'm willing to drive awhile for some good diving.

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Re: Computer choice

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I just ordered a Shearwater, I'll give you a comparison after a few dives.
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Re: Computer choice

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doublesunder wrote:I just ordered a Shearwater, I'll give you a comparison after a few dives.
Have you dove the the new computer. Yet?

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