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Originally Posted by sailingdog
The 76CSx is a better unit IMHO, and has the ability to mark a MOB event, which the Colorado appears to be lacking.
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The problem with the 76C-series is the screen is so small, esp. compared to the over-all size of the unit, which is relatively large.
I don't get it: How can these GPS manufacturers come out with all kinds of small, hand-held GPS' suitable for automotive use, with larger, usable touch-screen displays (I'm thinking of The Admiral's TomTom One, but Garmin and the others have similar units), and not be able to come up with a
relatively affordable marine unit that'll do the same on the water?
Ok, so an automotive, consumer unit like the TomTom One isn't marinized, doesn't have much battery life and probably won't tolerate much of a beating. Fine. Marinize it, beef it up structurally, increase the battery life and add charts. They (Garmin, Lowrance, etc.) can't do that for, say, double the price?
I think I'll somehow have to stumble around the lake w/o one of these until
one of the GPS manufacturers gets their act together.
I'm beginning to wish a Japanese manufacturer would enter the market, since the U.S. ones appear to be terminally stuck in the last century.
Jim