How is the vapor production with the argo? Really interested in buying one because of the price.
Should i expect Mighty performance?
We have two Mightys. I do not have an ArGo, but a buddy got one recently for his first device so I helped him set it up and have used it a few times. He chose it because he was looking for a pocketable, discreet device with user-replaceable batteries, so obviously the Mighty wasn’t up for consideration.
The ArGo draws like other Arizer portables, maybe slightly looser than the draw on my Solo I. If you keep the cooling unit and mouthpiece on the Mighty clean, there really isn’t much draw restriction at all. The ArGo gets me just as high as the Mighty, but I have to pull harder in the process.
Another thing to note is the difference in bowl size. Storz & Bickel love big bowls, and I’d say the Mighty chamber will probably hold 3-4x what an ArGo stem will hold, or maybe 2.5x if you’re using dosing capsules with the Mighty. I can’t even imagine trying to microdose with a Mighty, but I’ve seen some people here post here that they use domed screens as reducers in the ArGo stem to microdose.
Other non-performance comparisons:
The ArGo seems to come up to temperature slightly more quickly than the Mighty.
The ArGo gets hotter in your hand than the Mighty, which makes sense considering that a large portion of the Mighty’s body is designed to function as a finned heat sink.
It’s hard to find products that are simpler to operate than those designed by Storz & Bickel, and the Mighty is no exception. The ArGo is easy to operate, but you’ll want to glance through the manual if you weren’t born with the intuition that pressing and holding m and + simultaneously will power something on, etc. Speaking of manuals, why doesn’t Arizer make them easily available on their website?
The ArGo is actually a real-deal pocketable device, complete with “lockable” buttons so you’re not accidentally turning it on when you sit down. It’s smaller than a lot of my friends’ e-cig mods. I have small woman hands and can easily conceal it in my hand. Even with two hands I can’t come close to concealing a Mighty.
Cleaning the ArGo is very easy: use hot water or iso to clean the stem(s), then hot water or iso on a cotton swab to clean the bowl. Cleaning out the Mighty cooling unit is enough of a pain in the ass (IMO) that the only saving grace is that the material is opaque so you don’t have to watch it build up.
The Mighty would probably survive a drop onto a hard surface better than an ArGo with its glass stem and smaller body. I wouldn’t recommend dropping either of them though; we just got one of our Mightys back from RMA due to me dropping it badly enough that the cooling unit would no longer lock onto the body. Poor Mighty!
They’re both great devices from great companies. IMO they are pretty different from each other, which keeps it interesting.