My 'new' 478 showed last night. Took me two minutes to get it fired up, and setup the way I like. Boy, did I miss this thing. No more dark side for me. Unless: Give me a 478 with an SD card slot. Buttons on the left would be nice, so would a bigger screen, but a simple SD card slot would get my money.
Mongo sad. Map update won't load, Garmin says unit isn't able to use internal memory at all. Strange thing is, on my last one it would update for the space internally it had, then I'd load the remainder on the data card. Read once there was a workaround for this, anyone got a link?
Your post troubles me, Drif. My 478 is working fine, but I see it's getting old. I worry about which unit to replace it with, should that sad day come. Can you tell us what specifically you didn't like about the Montana? That's the one I'd probably get...
Small screen that gets smaller if you have any data fields. Then add a route, the directions bar is on top. Those combined halve the screen. No kidding, half. It's all touch screen and small icons, and I have big hands. The guys who love it come from the the 60 csx, that class of unit. To them, it is the shit, and rightly so. But coming from a 478, the thing is too limited in how I use a gps on a bike. The zumo 550 I used for a while was better on a bike for me. Had the Nav IV (xumo 660) and I disliked it because it was really limiting the zoom level for detail, it would only allow 500m scale, at 800m the small roads would disappear. On the 550, it went to 1.2km. The 478 2km, and that alone is a huge thing for me. I'm prone to using it as a moving map on the fly, and it was too hard at the lower zoom levels to float through an area, picking up and finding the fun ways to get there. Parts are out there, fix yours when it needs it.
Sounds like the car-based Nuvi's. I rant about them all the time. My wife politely listens, then rolls her eyes until I get over it. I like my GPS to tell me where I am, not merely to tell me how to get from A to B. In other words, to have enough map data that I can see street / highway names on it. Can't do that on the Nuvi's. It's the most annoying thing, to have all that data in the machine, but not to be able to access it. All because of Garmin cost control and standardizing on the Nuvi chipset. Some VP who can't read maps really screwed that pooch.
You know what I'm gonna do when my 478 goes tits up? I'm gonna get the cheapest Nuvi to replace it and just take maps. Screw these expensive GPS's if they can't do what I want.
do you have the lifetime update? The downloader that ibstakls with the updater will allow you to put a chunk of the maps in internal memory. The rest can go on your card. There's also the 2 gig card from Russia. I went with that and have been happy so far, even if it was $150.
Huh? It was a one time map update. Gonna try doing the download over, this time instead of to my mac only, gonna see if selecting mac and the gps will fool it into taking some maps internally. Then load the rest on the 512.
Typing on a smartphone isn't all that. Installs Selecting computer and gps for the install should allow you to get a big chunk into the internal memory. If I remember correctly I got everything East of the Mississippi as well as a chunk of the West coast in there before I ran out of room.
That's my thinking, that I force feed it that way, then put the excess I need on the 512. Had one of the 2gb cards on my last one, had problems getting the software to recognize it through the gps on installs. Thinking the solution there is a card reader, which I have now.
alternativ for 276-478..Looks good http://globeriders.com/article_pages/article06_gps/article06_monterra.shtml
I think it depends a lot on the glove. My thinner Klim gloves work fine with my phone, but the minute I go up to thicker/warmer gloves like another pair of Klim gloves or my First Gear winter gloves, they don't work on my phone touch screen. I'm not sure if some of the capcitance of your finger makes it through the gloves on the thinner gloves or what?
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