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Mostly, buying used computers is a real crapshoot. Nobody except Shearwater extends the warranty on any of their computers beyond the original owner. You could be a 1-week old Aqualung, but if you bought it from an individual instead of an authorized dealer, no warranty.

On the other hand, Shearwater gives a 2 year warranty and it transfers to any new owner.

Plus, you're pretty unlikely to need to invoke the warranty on a Shearwater. And even if it's out of warranty, they do repairs quickly and inexpensively. A used Petrel or even Predator would give you everything you're asking for and should be somewhere around half the cost of a new Perdix, I think.

If you decide to ante up for a brand new one, to ME, the Teric is worth the extra money. Just my opinion, as an owner of 2 Predators, a Perdix AI, and, now, 2 Terics. I have put my money where my mouth is. :)

Side note: The Predator is older, but even easier to read than the Petrel or Perdix. The Predator is an AMOLED display (as is the Teric) and the others are LCD.
 
A few months ago I bought a used Petrel 2. Used it for the first time last week in Bonaire. Best dive investment I've made so far and I own a SP MK25/S600 and Nighthawk BCD.
 
And apparently, DeepBlu has a leak problem. Dive Gear Express switched to Watoom, not cheap at $400, some proprietary Buhlmann algorithm, have seen nothing about it.

I see it for $300. Is "$400" a typo?
 

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