I've heard so many great things about this device, and just recently, I was torn on which device to purchase (between this and what I obviously went with, the ProVari).
A few things that made me choose the ProVari over the Darwin:
-The on/off arm- It's unique, no doubt, but for my personal purposes, it's an inconvenience. I shudder to think I would have to take a tank or larger cartomizer (what have you), off every time I wish to turn the unit off or on. Specifically for dripping, it's not as bad, but even still, I don't think a drip shield can be on while the arm is in the 'off' position, can it?
-No changeable battery- Perhaps this is just something I could easily have gotten over, but in my state of thinking (that of never using a device with a built-battery), it seems another inconvenience. Though I cannot say for sure, since I've never tried it out. The inconvenience being, of course, having to send the device in to eVolve to have the battery swapped.
-Rattling sound- This is just a nit-pick, but, still a minor concern of mine none the less. Were I to pay $200+ for a device, I expect no rattling. Rattling sounds in a device like these is a conditioned sound (learned in my mind) to equate to something that is broken. Of course I know it isn't, but my mind will need re-conditioning to think otherwise and that is another, albeit minor, inconvenience.
If one day eVolve were to redesign the device and addressed my personal concerns, I'll surely acquire myself a Darwin V2, or whatever they will call it. It seems like an excellent device and the super 1up I personally believe the Darwin has over the ProVari is the stored wattage setting. (Which we all know, the ability to set the wattage and retain it, no matter what atty/carto resistance being used).
Nice review Basil, I always look forward to watching. You need to come up with a get-rich-quick scheme, as to allow you more time to make more videos
I have to fall in line with Lev here. My good friend Basil is in disagreement with me. But if he'd like to lend me his Darwin, I'd be happy to review it against the Provari
The Darwin just doesn't "do it" for me. And I spent a lot of time on the fence between it and the Provari.
Now as a disclaimer- I've become an admitted Provari fanboi. And I'm certain the Darwin vapes every bit as well as the Provari (Which is to say "OMG THIS ROCKS!!!). But the form factor is such a killer for me.
So like most things in vaping- it's going to be a preference issue.
And to both Basil and Scott: Great reviews!!
Chief, I do not care if you like the Darwin or not. But these posts are getting pathetic. You posted in every Darwin thread how excited you were to get one - even posting from your car in traffic frustrated that it might take you ten more minutes to get home so you could use it. Then you kept it for 1 day and sold it - despite many posts from people encouraging you to keep it for a week or so to give it a fair chance (reviewers - good ones - give a device at least a week or more, some a month) and that it would not lose any resale value. Nonetheless, you sold it the day after you got it and immediately started making posts like this one about "a two foot tall mod..." when you already had seen (and responded to) this from another poster trying to help you:
Have the link to the pic with the ultra small tt gooseneck on a darwin closed. Was it 1 inch or smaller? Shame they are the same price as the big ones. They look cool though. That might help more and I am interested in maybe getting another one"a two foot tall mod..." when you already had seen (and responded to) this from another poster trying to help you:
for when I get the ripseed tank.
yeah get on with it, it is getting boring ... get both
I have to fall in line with Lev here. My good friend Basil is in disagreement with me. But if he'd like to lend me his Darwin, I'd be happy to review it against the Provari
The Darwin just doesn't "do it" for me. And I spent a lot of time on the fence between it and the Provari.
Now as a disclaimer- I've become an admitted Provari fanboi. And I'm certain the Darwin vapes every bit as well as the Provari (Which is to say "OMG THIS ROCKS!!!). But the form factor is such a killer for me.
So like most things in vaping- it's going to be a preference issue.
And to both Basil and Scott: Great reviews!!
Chief, I do not care if you like the Darwin or not. But these posts are getting pathetic. You posted in every Darwin thread how excited you were to get one - even posting from your car in traffic frustrated that it might take you ten more minutes to get home so you could use it. Then you kept it for 1 day and sold it - despite many posts from people encouraging you to keep it for a week or so to give it a fair chance (reviewers - good ones - give a device at least a week or more, some a month) and that it would not lose any resale value. Nonetheless, you sold it the day after you got it and immediately started making posts like this one about "a two foot tall mod..." when you already had seen (and responded to) this from another poster trying to help you:
Darwin or Provari or any device will not be for everyone. There are hundreds (probably well over a thousand +++) happily enthusiastic Darwinians just as there are Provarians. It is beginning to look like you got it to knock it. Dude, if you don't like it - fine, move on, but these posts of yours are beginning to say a lot more about you than they do about the device.
