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Originally posted by pony_trekker
And take my word for it, if you are going to buy one, buy one that you can load all of the maps on. It is a total pain in the ass to have to load a set of maps when you want to go to Boston on Mondaym, then to have to load another set of maps, when you want to go to DC on Tuesday.
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Strongly concur. The reason I went with the RoadMate 700 is that it has a ginormous pre-loaded HDD that has all USA maps in memory already --- no uploading. We rented a car on the East Coast last fall, and I just threw it into my carry-on luggage and suction-cupped it to the windshield at our destination. The beeyootiful thing is that you turn it on and it tells you how to get from the airport to wherever you're going, no muss, no fuss, no learning curve.
One tip: don't turn it on unless you're using it for directions to a place you don't know how to get to. When I first got mine, I started playing with it during my daily commute (where I already knew where the fuck I was going) and I got into the bad habit of totally tuning out the verbal directions because I didn't need them. ("Right turn approaching --- two miles." Yeah, whatever.) This led to the unfortunate situation of tuning out the verbal directions when I DID need them. Bottom line: only turn it on when you plan to pay attention to what the damn thing is telling you. Word to the wise.
