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Offline kb

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« on: December 08, 2005, 05:17:03 AM »
Anyone have one of these combination units?  How do you like it?  Good points/ bad points?


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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2005, 10:54:20 AM »
Check buzztail post from April.

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I bit the bullet, and picked up the M5 last week. I like it better than the 3600 but that's mainly due to the software. The only thing that I do not care for is the lack of a real compass. Battery life is great so far, and I really love the user changeable battery over "you gotta the send it in" 3600. Now I need to find a quality Wifi SD card for it.
Anyone else got one of these?
 il post back in April.
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2005, 07:30:52 AM »
I probably wouldn't hesitate to use a PDA/GPS unit inside a vehicle, but I'd be leery of using one in the field when it's wet, cold and just generally nasty.
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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2005, 08:26:23 AM »
akpls:  I have to agree with you.  They need to be protected from the weather.  I am unaware of any that meet the water proof standard that many handheld gps receivers meet.

I am aware of a few emergency response Incident Commanders who carry PDA's in the field because of there value as a tool.  In fact I met a IC from downunder who was carrying one. The manufactures of these devices need to build them to with stand wet weather.  Field engineers, emergency responders, builders, and others who work in the outdoors would find them attractive.  I suspect that a few were carried by emergency responders to New Orleans and other impacted locations this year.  So far the ones that I have seen belong to the individual and not an agency.
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2005, 08:28:39 AM »
I haven't used a PDA, but use my legend with a laptop and mapsource when on business trips out of town.  I love the 15" color display the laptop gives me.  About the only negative is that if I hook up the cable from the laptop to the legend then I loose the ability to run the legend off external power.
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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2005, 08:41:54 AM »
The 3-way cable I have for my Garmin 76C powers the gps unit but not the computer.  The computer is powered from the battery(s) or from the power converter.
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