Thread: What GPS to buy?

I've very recently purchased a 7" 800x480 unit with 4gb sd ram and 2gb flash ram from an Oz ebay seller for less than $300. It runs unlocked WinCE. So far I've found the street navigation (IGO v8) very good, after having had some bad experiences with a few PC-based nav systems.
I've loaded OziCE for testing but as yet haven't worked-out how to setup a seperate button for each of IGO and Ozi, so have to keep changing the name of the program to execute. I've loaded both programs (less very detailed Ozi maps) onto the flash memory too in case the SD card gets zapped when I'm away from civilisation. A $23 8gb SD card is on its way (filled the 4gb) and the unit will read 16gb.
Overall its a far better setup for me than my previous laptop based system with an 8" touch-screen. A reversing camera will be added soon.

After flapping around for ages with a Magellen eXplorist to try and get decent maps on it I decided that I didn't want any proprietary GPS anymore.

I've just got myself an ASUS T91 + NSW 25:000:1 topo maps and Ozi.

The T91 is a touch screen 8.9" tablet - so its a very small laptop with a touch screen that you can fold away.

I got the NSW topo maps from the Mugee Farm and field day (but I'm sure you can get them online) if you are going offroad in NSW, you really can't beat them. They are digitized versions of ALL the paper topo maps you get. As they are proper Topos, you can actually do proper map reading on them - ie not relying on man made things for navigation which change. (no more 'hmm the intersection should be here....')

Picked up a cheap usb gps from ebay - bob's your uncle.

The T91 has two SD slots - one for maps, one for music iTunes works well with a touch screen. Ozi is a little fiddly sometimes, IE you have to stop use use it but you want to do that anyway, don't you .

Ozi is just such amazing software I can't imagine going back to anything else.

The T91 was $550 (with 2GB ram) from iibuy.com.au
The Maps were $275
The USB GPS was $20 or so from ebay (gps2000.com, but the drivers are bad, so get a different one if you can)
Mount bracket was $30 from ebay
Had a bunch of SD cards laying around.

Looking at that, its a bit more expensive than a lot of the other options, but definitely the best of all worlds AFAIK.

Oh, and you get a mad 8.9" tablet which when combined with a USB GSM modem gives you a handy little ultra light touch screen laptop.