My 3 year old Streetpilot was beginning to show its age so on an impulse I replaced it today with a Garmin Nuvi 650. Wow... very impressed with this new model 
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=8671&tab=nuvi650
It uses a new chipset and the reception is unbelievable, so I guess I have to update some comments I made in another thread about new units not offering much more. I'm sitting in the house now and it gets 5 strong satellite signals with ~30 foot accuracy. Neither of my old units got a signal at all inside. It's also very fast to acquire the satellites.
The Nuvi series really seems to be the state of the art and departs from Garmin's older units because they mount on your computer just like a hard drive and you can copy files to and from it. Just loaded my topo maps and they look really good - much, much better than either of my old units. And you can even view them in pseudo-3d which is kind of cool.
The screen is big and incredibly bright with a very responsive touch. Builtin battery so you can pop it out of the car mount and carry around. Probably not what you would want fo hiking though. The most glaring omission is that it doesn't save or display tracks. Also missing some other features a true handheld would have. But it's great for the car. Was able to move all my old waypoints without any problem using Mapsource. These new units also let you create custom Points of Interest (POI's) which have a lot of cool features that waypoints don't have. Still need to study up on that a bit, but there are some shareware tools for this that look very interesting.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=8671&tab=nuvi650
It uses a new chipset and the reception is unbelievable, so I guess I have to update some comments I made in another thread about new units not offering much more. I'm sitting in the house now and it gets 5 strong satellite signals with ~30 foot accuracy. Neither of my old units got a signal at all inside. It's also very fast to acquire the satellites.
The Nuvi series really seems to be the state of the art and departs from Garmin's older units because they mount on your computer just like a hard drive and you can copy files to and from it. Just loaded my topo maps and they look really good - much, much better than either of my old units. And you can even view them in pseudo-3d which is kind of cool.
The screen is big and incredibly bright with a very responsive touch. Builtin battery so you can pop it out of the car mount and carry around. Probably not what you would want fo hiking though. The most glaring omission is that it doesn't save or display tracks. Also missing some other features a true handheld would have. But it's great for the car. Was able to move all my old waypoints without any problem using Mapsource. These new units also let you create custom Points of Interest (POI's) which have a lot of cool features that waypoints don't have. Still need to study up on that a bit, but there are some shareware tools for this that look very interesting.
