Garmin 910xt released today (Page 2)

I would be happy to buy anyones 310... I'm so darn frustrated with standing around for 5 minute for my 305 to get a satalite lock.... ERRRRR!

I don't need the latest gratest. A 310 would be fine. Hopefully they will become plentiful and cheap now.

The firmware updates for the 310XT have included a lot of new functionality too.

The compelling thing for me is the barometric pressure altitude info instead of GPS. The swim feature is nice (along with the graphic of someone actually swimming instead of skiing!!).

This looks pretty sweet and I'm very interested.  But since I just bought a new 405 6 months ago it will be a hard sell with my wife.  And she already has her own 405.

I guess I'll just have to let her know that I'm not getting the 910, and I'll use that money towards my new tri bike. 

Sonofa....
I just got my 310 last week and have done ONE workout with it. Just a couple hours ago!  Hopefully my buddy at Garmin can return it and I can pay the difference if any.

I haven't even read all the way through Ray's review, but I am a frequent lap swimmer and that alone sells it to me.  The fact that it is a little smaller and looks more like a regular watch is nice too.

Guess I better not scratch up this little orange guy...

But if you get a new tri bike you will certainly HAVE to get a Power Meter to properly train, and if you have a Power Meter you MUST have a 910xt to measure the power from both pedals independently!

You have no choice, got to get the whole package!

Looks like this is more of ANNOUNCED then released...I'll be looking to get one as soon as they start shipping.  I'll just sell my 310 to cover it.  Of course if that proves to be in days rather than months than we'll see about returning the first one.

I started as a swimmer so I'm pretty pumped about the new functions.

It won't be days. When the edge 800 was RELEASED it still took a while for the FCC to finish their approval process.

Perfect!  I'm 88 days away from getting back to the US and "cashing in" on all tri-IOUs I have from the past few years.

Question:  for those of you who use power, will you use this as your computer or do you use something else?

I have a power meter and use an edge 500 as my bike computer.  DC Rainmaker's review said that this 910xt can do EVERYTHING the edge 500 can, with the exception that it can only display up to 4 data fields...where the edge 500 can display up to 8 at one time.

That being said...I never display more than 6 fields at a time...and I often find that 4 fields is more than enough...especially since you can have multiple pages to scroll through.

Thanks

You can order one from the Garmin website, but it doesn't say anything about shipping dates.

That is what sold me.  It's pretty much going to kill that Finis swim watch (which I thought about getting but thank goodness I didn't) .  I put one on order yesterday.  It's not like I'm going to find this discounted online soon so I had my LBS order it for me (supporting the local business). Their supplier is saying about a month until I get it.

I also plan on using this for capturing and displaying power meter data.  I want the Vector next year but plan on getting a powertap to tide me over the winter.