Anyone Running GPS, What's the Best?

[7idl]

over the years I've had 4 different makes of GPS receivers..

1. garmin - by far the best consumer friendly/functionality
2. trimble - best pro
3. magellan - fair, always seemed "cheap" and I was never satisfied
4. Mio - ok, car navigator but it would reboot after a fault every now and then (it did have windows CE)

[Sucka]

So i got to use it a bit today, just on road and navigation stuff. It does the turn left, turn right stuff, but doesn't say the streets by name. That was one of the sacrifices in getting the "cross over" model.

It worked great, I know i'll get a lot of use out of this unit. The only complaint i had was typing in the streets and numbers. The touch screen is a bit clumsy and will take some getting used to. Also the keyboard is an abcd as opposed to qwerty style, i HATE that. Whoever the idiot was that designed it that way should be shot, who the fuck doesn't use qwerty keyboard layout?? Overall though i'm very happy with it.

[Sucka]

Opps, i hit edit instead of quote.

I ended up going with the Nuvi 500 for the topo capability. It's supposed to be a cross over style that can be used for car, hiking, biking and marine. Paid a bit more than i would have liked, but i really did want at least some topo capability since i will be using this offroad and for hiking.