Suunto Zoop Novo

Divers on Scubaboard generally praise the Zoop Novo's price-to-feature ratio, calling it a solid entry-level computer with a clear screen and straightforward four-button menu; owners with hundreds of dives report years of trouble-free use. However, a recurring and serious complaint is depth-sensor failure, with one moderator who services these units reporting it on well over half of the 40+ Zoops they've maintained over 12 years, plus reports of lockups mid-dive. Opinions are polarized: some defend Suunto's reliability and warranty service, others call the repeated sensor failures a dealbreaker. On a large r/scuba buying-advice thread, most commenters steered a beginner away from the Zoop Novo toward the Mares Puck 4, criticizing its proprietary/largely-abandoned RGBM algorithm and the expensive proprietary cable needed to download logs (Suunto's own desktop driver was called a "bag of rancid octopoo," though the free Subsurface software works fine with it). Actual owners pushed back in the same thread, with a 400-dive user saying it's "served my needs perfectly" and never had a sensor glitch, versus problems they'd had with other brands.

Summarized from public forum discussion (Scubaboard, Reddit, and similar), not a survey we ran ourselves. See the linked threads for the original conversations.