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GPS Question: What to buy
Mark Astley wrote:
Although the 196 is great, I've recently started to have second thoughts...The problem with the Garmin is that it ONLY does GPS. However, the weather this year has started me thinking about in-cockpit weather updates. If I'd purchased control visions AnywhereMap (www.controlvision.com), I'd have an upgrade path to the AnywhereWX product. As it stands now, I'm looking at having to either sell off the 196 and buy AnywhereMap (runs on a PDA), or buy both and have more GPS than I really need. Just something to consider... I've been "considering"...and it's daunting. I'd love opinions from those that have used them on how the Anywhere compares *as a GPS* to the 196. I did find: http://www.anywheremap.com/pdfs/garmin_compare.pdf but I'd hardly consider that unbiased. I mean, I'm sure it's honest. But it's easy for them to leave off the aspects where the Garmin would reign. Plus, I've the general fear of anything running on an MSFT environment today. Given the news about a power plant infected by the slammer worm, and some airline that had to do check-ins by hand because another worm took our their computers, stability and reliability has to be a concern for something built over Microsoft-CE or whatever those iPAQs are running. Still, the Anywhere looks like such a nice product. So...anyone tried both? - Andrew |
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