the new toy I want
Apr. 28th, 2004 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiI am skilled at neither driving nor navigating. Trying to do both at the same time... tends to get me in trouble.
Having experienced both a human passenger navigating, and Crash's dashboard-mounted GPS mapping 'bot, I prefer the 'bot. Yay for the triumph of Artificial Stupidity over Natural Intelligence.
What goes wrong having a friend navigate? Well, to illustrate, I could give a blow-by-blow account of how, in the process of trying to drive to dhs's house in Maryland, I drove into a ditch in Northern Virginia instead. But that would lead to pointless on-line bickering with the navigator. So we'll just move on from that.
So now I want this.
Now to look for comparison reviews... And the best price seems to be from costco.com; do I need a Costco membership to order from them?
Having experienced both a human passenger navigating, and Crash's dashboard-mounted GPS mapping 'bot, I prefer the 'bot. Yay for the triumph of Artificial Stupidity over Natural Intelligence.
What goes wrong having a friend navigate? Well, to illustrate, I could give a blow-by-blow account of how, in the process of trying to drive to dhs's house in Maryland, I drove into a ditch in Northern Virginia instead. But that would lead to pointless on-line bickering with the navigator. So we'll just move on from that.
So now I want this.
Now to look for comparison reviews... And the best price seems to be from costco.com; do I need a Costco membership to order from them?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-04-28 11:58 am (UTC)If you enter ique in the search box at pricewatch (http://www.pricewatch.com) you'll see that you can actually beat Costco's price by mail order; Comp-U-Plus (http://www.compuplus.com) has the iQue for $425+$15 shipping.
The only drawback I've heard described about this thing is that standalone battery life is not great. This isn't an issue when you're using it as a car-mounted GPS, but it might be a consideration if you're using it as a plain-ole PDA as well...