Hey, How ya been? Good I hope. Actually that isn't at all the reason I went to the 8. The reason I went to the 8 was to get a faster lock as I was usually having to wait a minute, sometimes 2 minutes to get 7-8 sats. (Impatient, bad fault of mine) After I would take off I usually had 12-14 on trip home. The 8 gives me great speed to lock, usually almost immediately with 12-14 sat's. That's awesome. But to say it performs "better" or that I can do things now that I couldn't do before, well, that's just not the case. Now that the latest firmware update has addressed the "time to lock Issue or at least that's what I am hearing I am going back to the Neo 7. The reason being that the Neo 7 is made specifically for SOLO and 3DR. I didn't realize that there is the potential to brick SOLO on firmware updates. Had I known that when I updated at 5am when it was released I wouldn't have done it. Fortunately my update went smoothly even though a good portion of the update addressed the Neo 7. So, for the future I will be re-installing the NEO 7 as the only thing I did not like was the time element and won't have that concern on future updates that something just might not work correctly or worse case, brick it.
Best of luck and thanks for the note.