best gps for the money???

[Jaimecbr900]

Magellan's are garbage, they're just affordable. The company was started from a rental car company, what credibility does that hold when it comes to portable electronics?

Really? How do you base that opinion?

Seems a few others don't agree with you:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Magellan_Roa...-32065623.html

http://www.rated4stars.com/html/mage...-gps-revi.html

As for Tomtom, it's an okay brand, it's a company based in London which might make a lil more difficult for some to understand.

Really? Why do the instructions in ENGLISH confuse people???? Maybe the plug-n-play is too difficult???? Maybe the voice prompts, choice of voices and dialects can't guide you where you want to go? What part of the TomTom confuses people exactly?

My wife can't screw in a light bulb. She licked the suction cup, plugged it into the cig lighter, and has been extremely happy ever since. She used to get lost in a cul-de-sac. Now she does up to as many as 4 different appraisals with 10 different way points driving more than 100 miles and STILL makes it home in time to cook me and the kids dinner. So if a TomTom "confuses" someone.....it's because they're an idiot and don't deserve to be driving in the first place.

You know Garmin also offer sleek designed ones, just that they are more expensive. Garmins are top ranked because of their ease-of-use, vibrant colors, features that work better, and casings that are more heat-resistant than other GPS units. Go check out the reviews for the C330.

Again, Cnet doesn't seem to agree with you since they rank the Magellan AND the TomTom HIGHER than the C330.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Magellan_Roa...4&rid=32078943



Besides, are you going to use it to get you to and fro or are you going to marry it??? Who cares if it's .5 ounces lighter and 1 degree cooler in the sun? Does it get me to where I wanna go? Does it get me around a traffic jam? Does it give me voice instructions? Is it touch screen? Is it plug-n-play? Can I afford it? Then what other bells and whistles are needed? Mine gives me altitude, waypoints, points of interest, fancy smancy longitude and latitude, and it even tells me what the house numbers are on the left and the right AS I drive down the street (pretty damn dead on too BTW), but to be honest......WHO cares??? I put in the address where I wanna go, choose how I wanna get there, and VOILA it does it's thing. What more do I need out of a GPS? I don't get all the hair splitting.

Considering a couple of years ago, even cheap units were over $1k and now you can get them for around $200 with better performance......I'd say they're ALL damn good IMO. Certainly much better and hellava lot more accurate than Mapquest......so what's the big deal?

[TypeRPersonality]

Really? How do you base that opinion?

Seems a few others don't agree with you:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Magellan_Roa...-32065623.html

http://www.rated4stars.com/html/mage...-gps-revi.html






Really? Why do the instructions in ENGLISH confuse people???? Maybe the plug-n-play is too difficult???? Maybe the voice prompts, choice of voices and dialects can't guide you where you want to go? What part of the TomTom confuses people exactly?

My wife can't screw in a light bulb. She licked the suction cup, plugged it into the cig lighter, and has been extremely happy ever since. She used to get lost in a cul-de-sac. Now she does up to as many as 4 different appraisals with 10 different way points driving more than 100 miles and STILL makes it home in time to cook me and the kids dinner. So if a TomTom "confuses" someone.....it's because they're an idiot and don't deserve to be driving in the first place.



Again, Cnet doesn't seem to agree with you since they rank the Magellan AND the TomTom HIGHER than the C330.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Magellan_Roa...4&rid=32078943



Besides, are you going to use it to get you to and fro or are you going to marry it??? Who cares if it's .5 ounces lighter and 1 degree cooler in the sun? Does it get me to where I wanna go? Does it get me around a traffic jam? Does it give me voice instructions? Is it touch screen? Is it plug-n-play? Can I afford it? Then what other bells and whistles are needed? Mine gives me altitude, waypoints, points of interest, fancy smancy longitude and latitude, and it even tells me what the house numbers are on the left and the right AS I drive down the street (pretty damn dead on too BTW), but to be honest......WHO cares??? I put in the address where I wanna go, choose how I wanna get there, and VOILA it does it's thing. What more do I need out of a GPS? I don't get all the hair splitting.

Considering a couple of years ago, even cheap units were over $1k and now you can get them for around $200 with better performance......I'd say they're ALL damn good IMO. Certainly much better and hellava lot more accurate than Mapquest......so what's the big deal?

I could care less about GPS units, I don't use them, I just use to sell them. And since you're so caught up about the reviews from Cnet, look at the average user rating rather than Cnet editors' reviews. Of course everyone's gonna like the GPS unit they're using, but without being able to compare and contrast to other units, their opinion would biased.

[Jaimecbr900]

I could care less about GPS units, I don't use them, I just use to sell them.

That explains a lot.

And since you're so caught up about the reviews from Cnet, look at the average user rating rather than Cnet editors' reviews.

#1. I did, and they still don't rate neither the Magellans nor the TomToms as.....how'd you eloquently put it????......"garbage"......so again, what's your point? They STILL don't agree with you.

Of course everyone's gonna like the GPS unit they're using, but without being able to compare and contrast to other units, their opinion would biased.

Really? Which one do YOU own? Unlike you and a couple of others, I didn't put down a single unit at all. I merely showed YOU and anyone else who was looking on that YOU were far from a reliable source on the subject matter. Your very first sentence to your response proves me absolutely right.

For your info.....I may use a Magellan now, but just FYI I've also owned AND more importantly USED for more than the 30 secs at a display window at the store several brands INCLUDING your venerable Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, and even had a Lowrance on my boat. As a matter of fact, I love my Etrex when I go hunting or playing around in the woods. So I don't nut swing on anything but what works. In MY experience your opinion is way off the mark and therefore I said what I said.....but since you SOLD them I'm sure you can come right back and prove me wrong. Right?