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Originally Posted by davidpm
The main reason however is that the Colorado has all the charts for us coastal. Unless you only want one small area the 76 will be hundreds of dollars more costly.
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Yeah, noticed that while researching the Garmin cross-overs. Garmin really bends you over for charts.
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Originally Posted by davidpm
I agree there seems to be arbitrary disadvantages tacked on to every model.
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It's almost as if none of these companies are looking at what the others are making, and even that they're using whole new engineering teams for some of their products that don't even bother to look at the rest of their own product line.
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Originally Posted by davidpm
There is a set waypoint option which can be used for cob, not a quick.
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How stupid is that: To have a
marine GPS without a MOB/COB button? Hello?
The latest one I looked at (after this, I decided to simply give up) was the Garmin Oregon. Spendy, but interesting. Then I saw some pictures of the Oregon in the bright sunlight and side-by-side with a 76C. They must be joking! Their reasoning for a display that's essentially worthless in bright light (and mind you: The display is the keyboard on the Oregon--so even if they thought to provide a quick-and-easy MOB/COB "button": Good luck finding it): Extends battery life. Uh, here's a thought: Give the end-user the
option of setting brightness/contrast.? Let the end-user decide what's the best compromise between readability and battery life? (Just guessing, mind you, but I'm thinking their logic ran something like this: "If we artificially restrict brightness/contrast, we'll be able to claim
really good run-time on batteries."
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Jim