Originally Posted by diseman
Sounds like the decision should be based on usage:
1. Local area with some roadtrips leads to selecting a fixed, dedicated unit for convenience.
2. Travel -- some dedicated units will be easy to manage but laptop installation provides good use.
What we really need is to have it interfaced and overlayed with radar and realtime automatic road reports with wire drive so we can get from here to there without having to watch the road!
The TomTom to go units (in Europe) can connect through your GPRS cellphone and download traffic information, speedtraps and other data. The TomTom online service isn't available in the US (yet).
Having your unit tell you to take an alternative route because of traffic is amazing.
I was seriously considering getting a TomTom to go 700 till i found out that it doesn't have an external GPS antenna connector
