> I would like to know, which has the maps on individual memory cards and > which has the fixed memory card that you change maps by computer. Also does > anyone have a preference between the 2 and why. Both these X-models have a fixed memory card (unlike non-X models). This means that you do NOT need a computer to change the map. My preference would've been X, if I were to paddle through the forest - which usually doesn't happen to a sea kayaker, or crossing, say, all the stretch of the northwest Bluechart Canada section in one long multiday expedition (from the south-east end of the Puget Sound to the north-west of Queen Charlotte archipelago) - but I've heard of only few people that've managed that. This is more than a thousand kilometers. This difference between X and non-X becomes rather an academic now, as non-X models (60cs and 76cs) have been discontinued and very few stores carry them. And the price of X-model is now about the same as the price of non-X a few years ago, - though I would rather prefer Garmin to pass this chunk of RD money directly to me, a consumer - lowering the price further :-) ... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 29 2006 - 12:26:28 PST
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