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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 4:50 pm
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Originally Posted by pred02
What is the chip for and how much does it cost? I though with the SD card you can load up the European software, the activation code and you are good to go?
The Nüvi 350 gave the buyer the choice of U.S. or European maps when we bought it. We bought a European map chip for our 350 from an online outfit as it was cheaper than Garmin's price. AFAIK it was $200-300 but you could look up the latest price online yourself with search.

I notice that there's a model that has U.S. and European maps pre-loaded.

http://www.garmin.com/products/nuvi370/

A lot of folks are positively evangelical in their enthusiasm about the TomTom units - I used one very briefly awhile back and it seemed to work fine as well.

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Fredd

I just figured out that what I in my technological ignorance am calling a chip is actually a "Garmin nüvi 350 preprogrammed SD card." Sorry for any confusion.
Last edited by Fredd; Apr 8, 2007 at 4:56 pm Reason: Chip vs. card
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