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Tom & Sharol
Recently I have been researching GPS receivers for our travel use. For the past year I used the Delorme Street Atlas software on our Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I made a "center console" for the laptop to mount on which slips over the center of our seat in the GMC 2500HD. It worked very well and having a large 15" display made it easy to see the map as we traveled. The software worked very well, however the road data that Delorme uses was VERY inaccurate. I narrowed down the search to the Garmin Street Pilot c550. I was about to call in an order for a c550 from http://www.gpsnow.com but had a question whether I could plan routes on our Laptop and download to the c550. I called Garmin and they suggested to wait for their new nuvi 700 series which would allow that and more. The series should be on the market shortly as I was advised by a technical rep at Garmin.
I'm looking seriously at the nuvi 750 as it doesn't include Bluetooth technology which we didn't feel was important to us. When the 700 series hits the market it may be hard to find much discounting until time passes, but I'm hoping a company like GPSNOW will. My son has delt with them and has been very satisfied. Here's Garmins Press Release Link:
http://www8.garmin.com/pressroom/mobile/083007.html
The main reason I'm posting this is there may be others who are thinking of getting their first GPS or are looking for some new features in automotive units. If you would like to create/edit GPS routes/waypoints on your home computer and be able to download them to your GPS, look at the Garmin nuvii 700 series. Here's Garmins site:
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us
If anyone has questions, I'll try to answer them.....
Tom
I'm looking seriously at the nuvi 750 as it doesn't include Bluetooth technology which we didn't feel was important to us. When the 700 series hits the market it may be hard to find much discounting until time passes, but I'm hoping a company like GPSNOW will. My son has delt with them and has been very satisfied. Here's Garmins Press Release Link:
http://www8.garmin.com/pressroom/mobile/083007.html
The main reason I'm posting this is there may be others who are thinking of getting their first GPS or are looking for some new features in automotive units. If you would like to create/edit GPS routes/waypoints on your home computer and be able to download them to your GPS, look at the Garmin nuvii 700 series. Here's Garmins site:
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us
If anyone has questions, I'll try to answer them.....
Tom