I'm not against AI, I'm against the current AI computers on the market because none of them are really great computers to begin with and they are priced at insane premiums for a very simple piece of technology. I very much want WAI to come out with reasonable prices and smaller transmitters. If the transmitters come out for ~$150/transmitter and the computer is ~$1000, then I will purchase a computer with at least 4 transmitters on it
There are brilliant computers out there that are cheap, and I firmly believe in them, *except the Zoop*, but you can get a Geo 2.0 for just over $300 right now, and for recreational diving that's a no brainer. It's good enough, just go into it with the understanding that you are 100% placing your DCS risk in the hands of the computer because you have no control. Do most divers understand how it works? Of course not because most course directors don't know how it works so how can the divers be expected to, but my whole point here was that
@acsherwood is asking for a non-conservative algorithm computer and if you are going to purchase a computer that is "non-conservative" or "liberal" then you have to understand why, and how liberal you really want that computer to be. Oceanic doesn't really tell you on either of their algorithms, no one does unless they are using VPM, or true Buhlmann ZHL-16 with published gradient factors. Those computers right now are limited to the Ratio, Shearwater, Liquivision *horrible company and horrible computers, don't buy their stuff*, Seabear *though don't buy one now because Scubapro botched that acquisition hard...*, and the Nitek Q. There may be some others out there, but I can't think of them right now. The Nitek Q is currently available for $400, has a digital compass, CCR/trimix support, customizeable algorithm, not a bad screen, and dive log upload *though Dive Rite botched the software hard so you have to use 3rd party for logging. Keep in mind for log uploading that the cheap computers don't come with this built in, you have to buy a ~$100 proprietary USB cable, so if you want to log your dives, make sure to factor that into the purchase cost of the computer*. Unfortunately the only computer that is able to do that is the Eon Steel which is $1500, and each transmitter is $450, and that's ridiculous.