I'm going to say something that'll get a lot of resistance from people. Personally, I wouldn't touch the Veos, I'd go to the Geo or Atom or another brand altogether.
I have used a fair amount of Oceanic gear over the years on my dive charters (my rental gear for the boat), with good results, except for the Veo line of computers. My Data plus computers were pretty darned good. With the Veos, I ended up needing to replace them, and replace them, over and over. I'm not sure if I even got 50 dives out of any of them. The past few years I've seen many customer computers completely fail on the boat, and one computer screw up badly for 1 dive. The one that screwed up for 1 dive (gave an incorrect depth reading and NDL as though it didn't turn on 'til it got to 17') was a Suunto. That's the only customer Suunto failure over the years I can recall, and it was fine for the rest of their trip. All the others were either Veos, many used only a few dives, or fairly well used older model Oceanic computers that predate most of today's popular computers.
For some reason, I can't help but think there's something wrong somewhere with the Veo line. I can't tell you how many customers I've had that have said their first one petered out and was replaced. Good customer service on Oceanic's part, but the two computers we see customers with the most on board are either Oceanic or Suunto, and the incidence of failure or stories of failure are radically skewed towards the Veo line. I don't do retail yet, I don't know if any dealers are seeing this or not, but I'd be interested in talking to someone who deals with both companies to get their thoughts. Oceanic's service is great, but failures shouldn't happen on a regular basis in the first place. Maybe I'm snakebit, but I'd avoid it and get a Geo or a Suunto product, maybe even one of the Seiko manufactured computers (tusa/zeagle/cressi) first.
