Nomad Dongle Upgrade process

In my opinion, if you get all of the functionality of the ion, hardware and software side, as well as the 2 monitors for less than the price of an Ion, then the nomad package you have would then be considered fair priced. Usually you are losing out on a lot of hardware features in other console platforms, which is were the price disparity comes into play.

You can argue that the license pricing for DMX outputs seems high, but that is the price you are paying for a full functioning software and the support team that backs up that software. The advantage of the nomad pricing model is that you can start at a smaller scale and grow as your needs grow. You may not need a programming wing for your first set of shows, or ever. You may be able to program everything at in your office with nothing but a keyboard and some well made macros to speed up your workflow. One day that may change, and this is where you upgrade your set up, and at the end of the day end up saving money to have the same functionality.

You may see it as a pain the pricing is this way, but others are grateful. If you need lighting desk, buy one. If you need to control lights buy a nomad, and one day you can have a lighting desk as well, without having to get rid of what you already have purchased.

For me the nomad was the way to go; i flip between eos and cobalt; i also dont have the space for a full console in storage, and an ion for me is not $8k but $17k, so i have a system now thats more flexible; and upgradable for $2-3k

here is my Nomad case...

pretty quick and easy to setuo as it is all in one case.