"Dude" wrote in message
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Garmin is now becoming the de facto "microsoft" of aviation. For all of
those who thought MS was playing fair all along, I don't want to hear you
whining.

Who the hell ever thought that?

For the rest of us, we will soon be making the same decisions we
made before. Either way, your choice will have consequences. Our only
hope
is that Avidyne pulls off a slam dunk on thier integrated cockpit and GPS,
and plays hard ball by offering better pricing.

It seems an Avidyne EX-500 and a Garmin GPS480 is a heck of good
(compromise) configuration if you're not going with a IFS.