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That's a pretty varied range to consider. Some more info. might help guide advice.

1.) How many dives do you have, and what sort of diving do you do (e.g.: recreational, technical, warm water coral reef, deep wreck, etc...)?

2.) Do you do technical diving? If not, do you anticipate doing so in the future, and is it important this computer be useful in that regard besides having a 'gauge mode?'

3.) Do you like larger, easier to read displays like the EON Steel, or smaller, wrist watch-like displays?

4.) How much value to you put on an easier-to-use graphical interface vs. something that feels like changing the time on a wrist watch?

5.) How big of a concern is long battery life? Warning: big, intuitive GUE's and long battery life often don't go together.

6.) What does 'multi-gas' mean to you? Do you mean it can handle recreational nitrox., or are we talking trimix, or changing gasses during the dive as you switch to stage bottle gas to accelerate deco., etc...?

Richard.
 
Unless you want a real technical computer, Shearwater Perdix, Scubapro H3..., I would buy an Oceanic computer running the DSAT decompression algorithm. Other computers will limit your bottom time due to NDL if your air consumption is relatively good. I believe the most common cause for dive computer purchase remorse is an overly conservative decompression algorithm. This would apply particularly to the Cressi, Mares, and Suunto proprietary RBGM algorithms.
 

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