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- Dec 9, 2007
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I've had a Go 720 for a couple of years and (like pretty much everybody else), I have a love-hate relationship with it. The 720 is still going strong and, unless I step on it or drop it on something really hard, I don't see it going belly up for physical reasons any time soon.
A couple of days ago, I saw an ad for the no-longer-being-manufactured Go 930 at $300 (Canadian). For a moment, it seemed like a good bargain, bu, with the initial excitement gone, I asked myself: is this a good buy? (the assistant assured me it would even go under 300 "soon", because nobody seemed to buy it anymore)
My specific situation:
-my neck of the woods has no traffic info, none whatsoever; I don't travel to big cities often enough to be preoccupied with avoiding traffic jams (I don't think the meager traffic info for Vancouver or Calgary would help me much whenever I have to drive through those cities);
-I don't care about "additional visual elements", such as buildings, parks etc, elements that are missing from North_America 2GB, but are instead present in the "full" North_America version of the map.
-I'd like to have a European map - I cross the pond once, maybe twice a year; a map - even though it wouldn't be the latest version - would still be a nice plus.
Right now, I have two "nay"s and one "nice-to-have" i.e. insufficient reasons to shell out three hundred bucks. Still, I'm tempted to make an investment "for the future" - the 940, the 950, they all have the same hardware as the 930, but some added connectivity (which does not interest me in the least, as stated). This means that its underlying physical system won't become obsolete any time soon, and thus it would seem like a good investment.
What do you think?
A couple of days ago, I saw an ad for the no-longer-being-manufactured Go 930 at $300 (Canadian). For a moment, it seemed like a good bargain, bu, with the initial excitement gone, I asked myself: is this a good buy? (the assistant assured me it would even go under 300 "soon", because nobody seemed to buy it anymore)
My specific situation:
-my neck of the woods has no traffic info, none whatsoever; I don't travel to big cities often enough to be preoccupied with avoiding traffic jams (I don't think the meager traffic info for Vancouver or Calgary would help me much whenever I have to drive through those cities);
-I don't care about "additional visual elements", such as buildings, parks etc, elements that are missing from North_America 2GB, but are instead present in the "full" North_America version of the map.
-I'd like to have a European map - I cross the pond once, maybe twice a year; a map - even though it wouldn't be the latest version - would still be a nice plus.
Right now, I have two "nay"s and one "nice-to-have" i.e. insufficient reasons to shell out three hundred bucks. Still, I'm tempted to make an investment "for the future" - the 940, the 950, they all have the same hardware as the 930, but some added connectivity (which does not interest me in the least, as stated). This means that its underlying physical system won't become obsolete any time soon, and thus it would seem like a good investment.
What do you think?