The Garmin 496...a teenager's review

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Jay,

That's funny -- every kid my son knows owns an X-box.


No offense, but we've been through this before. As we have discussed
here at numerous occasions, there's a difference between "Jay's world"
and statistics.

The Xbox 360 has sold badly. Less have been sold than even MS expected.
Way less. The Xbox venture as a whole so far is a loss for MS - albeit
one they can afford. If it wasn't for Sony being so immensely dumb, the
Xbox would be close to non-existent. With current generation consoles,
the Wii is the success story.

Oh, and the Xbox 360s will have to have a factory defect repaired. All
of them.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)


The 360 was compromized befor it was even aviable for retail sale. I know in
my kids X-Box it has 250gig HD and is packed with games. Why buy a 360 at
the price they want now wait till price is less. Bet better the the PS wich
hasent released a game in a while hahahaha....

http://www.xbox-scene.com

"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
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"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Jay,

That's funny -- every kid my son knows owns an X-box.


No offense, but we've been through this before. As we have discussed
here at numerous occasions, there's a difference between "Jay's world"
and statistics.

The Xbox 360 has sold badly. Less have been sold than even MS expected.
Way less. The Xbox venture as a whole so far is a loss for MS - albeit
one they can afford. If it wasn't for Sony being so immensely dumb, the
Xbox would be close to non-existent. With current generation consoles,
the Wii is the success story.

Oh, and the Xbox 360s will have to have a factory defect repaired. All
of them.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)


The 360 was compromized befor it was even aviable for retail sale. I know
in my kids X-Box it has 250gig HD and is packed with games. Why buy a 360
at the price they want now wait till price is less. Bet better the the PS
wich hasent released a game in a while hahahaha....

http://www.xbox-scene.com



Dam broken spell checker hahahaha!!!!

Sorry for the tease!

Whoa. That's how rumors start!

I remember when everyone was saying that "Lowrance is introducing XM
at OSH this year", back in '05. EVERYONE was at the Lowrance booth,
wanting to see the new product that didn't exist.

I actually felt sorry for the reps at the booth...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Being able to simply click on the airport to see ALL information is
the single coolest thing about the 496

Well, if it's so cool, why are you complaining about it? gd&r

If only it worked as well as my LG cell phone, I'd be happy. Now
THERE is a product with bullet-proof technology that actually works as
advertised.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

According to information compiled by the usability association in 2005,
annual pay in the field in the United States started at about $49,000 and
rose to about $120,000. The average salary was $86,500.

Sounds great for my son's future career -- but that's the kind of
corporate stupidity that drives me CRAZY. Imagine, paying some
schmuck $120K to be a "Useability" expert, instead of just making the
effort to get input from actual users.

Honestly, IMHO large corporations are so wasteful, it's a miracle any
of them survive.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The Xbox 360 has sold badly. Less have been sold than even MS expected

That may be the case, but they've still sold millions of the damned
things, and they are EVERYWHERE. Walk into any gamer hangout or
computer store in America, and half the store will be X-Box console
games. The other half will be Playstation and Wii (which, although up
and coming, still hasn't displaced the Big Two), with a tiny little
corner devoted to PC games.

If only Garmin sold 3% as much as the "failed" X-Box, maybe they'd
install a decent processor in the 496.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I have more experience with the Garmin. The Anywheremap is "nicer" in that
it shows more cool stuff. Thus, I thought Jay Jr. might like it better. But
I don't care for the stylus interface in a plane much

AnyWhereMap is cool, and has some neat features, but there is no way
I'm using a stylus in the plane. Running it on a touch-screen solid
state PC would be great, but was too pricey when we were shopping last
year.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

According to information compiled by the usability association in 2005,
annual pay in the field in the United States started at about $49,000 and
rose to about $120,000. The average salary was $86,500.

Sounds great for my son's future career -- but that's the kind of
corporate stupidity that drives me CRAZY. Imagine, paying some
schmuck $120K to be a "Useability" expert, instead of just making the
effort to get input from actual users.

Jay: If I understand the term correctly, the useability expert IS the means
for getting input from actual users. However, users generally don't have
any objective quantitative measures for assessing which features are more
useful or for comparing different capability implementations.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

Jay Honeck wrote:
Being able to simply click on the airport to see ALL information is
the single coolest thing about the 496
Well, if it's so cool, why are you complaining about it? gd&r

If only it worked as well as my LG cell phone, I'd be happy. Now
THERE is a product with bullet-proof technology that actually works as
advertised.

I dunno. Of the 4 LG 3300 phones on my current contract, two have been
trouble with one dieing completely in less than 18 months. My former
Moto phone was bullet-proof (StarTac) as is my current Samsung 650
(nearly 3 years old now). I should upgrade the latter as I'm well
beyond the 2 year contract, but the thing works and I know how to use it.

No more LGs for me...

Matt

Jay Honeck wrote:

The Xbox 360 has sold badly. Less have been sold than even MS expected

That may be the case, but they've still sold millions of the damned
things, and they are EVERYWHERE. Walk into any gamer hangout or
computer store in America, and half the store will be X-Box console
games. The other half will be Playstation and Wii (which, although up
and coming, still hasn't displaced the Big Two), with a tiny little
corner devoted to PC games.

Sales figures of the boxes themselves are somewhat different:

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6331086

"In the first five months of the year, Nintendo has walked away as the
winner, selling 1.73 million Wiis in the United States, according to market
researcher NPD Group. Microsoft has sold 1 million Xbox 360s and Sony has
sold only 665,000 PS3s."