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Garmin nuvi® 255W GPS Receiver

$290.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.bestbuy.com
if you do some research, you'll find that you can plug this in to a pc and download the latest maps along with several different voices and cursor icons!
from Ben from Brighton, CO, clickfrom.buy.com
(copy files from the gps unit on to my pc and burn them into a disk.) all files and folder ~ 1.22gb.
from www.bestbuy.com
no usb cable to connect to your pc "for $179.99 is a great price..
from Ben from Brighton, CO, clickfrom.buy.com
you have to buy "garmin" special usb-mini cable to be able to charge and operate the unit from your pc.
from www.amazon.com
after unpacking the unit i hooked it up to my pc to download the latest software for the unit and to update the maps, both of which were free to do.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Great Display, Great Map Quality, Designation: Automobile

2 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for PC

Garmin nuvi 260W Car GPS Receiver

$235.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
after getting home from my road trip i connected the device to my pc, via standard usb (type a) to mini-usb (type mini-b) cable, registered the product on garmin's web site, and was able to instantly
from www.amazon.com
once it did, i hooked up to my pc (with the optional mini usb connector) to register it.
from www.amazon.com
be sure you hook it up to your pc monthly and download and software updates that garmin might've put out.
from www.amazon.com
the usb cable to attach the unit to a pc was not included with the 260w and is required to register the unit and update the internal os software as well as the map updates.
from www.amazon.com
however you can charge outside the car with the pc's usb port.

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Positives: Nice Display, Easy To Use, Great Map Quality, Form Factor: Fixed

3 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for PC

TomTom ONE 125 GPS Receiver

$148.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
you don't have to have it connect with you pc, but if you do there are a lot of voices you download to your tomtom.
from www.amazon.com
and it works amazing u can also updated it for free all u have to do is conected you tomtom to you pc is so easy u dont need to spend hundreds of dollar for gps navigation tomtom is all we need :-)
from www.amazon.com
before i got this gps, i used tomtom software on my pocket pc.
from www.amazon.com
tomtome home software for your pc is very simple and straight forward
from www.amazon.com
+ comes with a gps, usb pc syncing cable, car power adapter and mounting disk

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Positives: Easy To Use, Excellent Map Quality, Great Accuracy, Designation: Automobile

4 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for PC

Magellan RoadMate 1412 GPS Receiver

$193.00 Est. at Amazon

from raz from Southern California, www.circuitcity.com
you can update your points of interests, but that's only on a pc, not mac.
from www.amazon.com
the usb connection will charge if you turn the gps off when it's connected to your pc with a usb mini cable.
from www.amazon.com
you can charge it at home if you have a pc and a "mini usb" to "regular usb" cable.
from www.amazon.com
the firmware download is free, but you need a usb cable (not provided, $15.00 from magellan) to install it from your pc.
from www.amazon.com
the mapping software that is available for download onto your pc doesn't seem to be very user-friendly.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Map Quality, Good Accuracy, Designation: Automobile

5 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for PC

Garmin nuvi 205W GPS Receiver

$212.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
you can get it $10 cheaper here on amazon, however i want to read the box, make sure the pc power cable is included, plus i want to buy a dashboard holder and a nice case for all the items.
from www.amazon.com
built quality is superb, it feels like a little brick, the pc software to load ipo's is great; you can also look for an address on google maps and click "send" to load the location to the garmin.
from www.amazon.com
if you connect the 205w to your pc, the web site can install them directly to the unit.
from www.amazon.com
i have no complaints about the unit, other than how rather disappointed i am with garmin, in that they don't provide you the cable to connect from your pc to the unit to download your free updated
from www.amazon.com
then register at garmin, connect the gps to the pc with that new cable.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Excellent Map Quality, Nice Display, Designation: Automobile

Garmin Nuvi 780 Car GPS Receiver

$359.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the only downside was it seemed to take longer than expected in doing its search (as compared to using google on your pc).
from www.amazon.com
neither lets you search along the route as does the delorme pc gps so many of the poi's are behind you.
from www.amazon.com
i have to get to a windows pc to attain this, which for me is an inconvenience.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Map Quality, Great Display, Designation: Automobile

Garmin Nuvi 265W GPS Receiver

$353.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the only draw back to this unit is the software to link it to your pc created all kinds of conflicts with outlook and other games.
from www.amazon.com
so i tried on my laptop which is a pc.
from www.amazon.com
firmware and map downloads work on both my mac and pc.
from www.amazon.com
both run winxp and there isn't anything special about either pc.
from www.amazon.com
there are other features like the ability to connect the 265wt to your pc and automatically add favorite locations using googlemaps.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Display, Great Map Quality, Form Factor: Fixed

Sony NV-U83 GPS Receiver

$350.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
interfacing with pc was very easy and navu-tool program is very easy to use with many nice features.
from www.amazon.com
i still am not quite sure what i am supposed to do with the nav-u software that the cd installed on my pc.
from www.amazon.com
the disk also installs the 'nav-u tool' application on a pc to allow for firmware upgrades and other downloads via a usb cable.

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Positives: Designation: Automobile, Form Factor: Fixed, Display Size: 4.8 in., User interface: Touch Screen

Garmin Nuvi 760 760T Car GPS Receiver

$353.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
what upset me by far the most is after the unit arrived i attached it to my pc, registered the unit and was informed i needed an update.
from www.amazon.com
the alternative requires you to use the suction cup mount to charge the unit, or charge it on the pc.
from www.amazon.com
i had to connect it to my pc, and hold the on button for 7 or 8 seconds for it to turn on again.
from www.amazon.com
the keyboard can be set to qwerty and that makes typing so much easier if you are familiar with a pc keyboard.
from www.amazon.com
in this case the user could either down load the travel data from the actual paths driven from the nuvi trip log to a pc or edit the trip log on the nuvi to add street names and define roads and

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Accuracy, Excellent Display, Designation: Automobile

Garmin nüvi 265T GPS Receiver

$226.00 Est. at Amazon

from Bob, www.newegg.com
however, all of the applications available to the pc are also now available for the mac on garmin's website and they download quickly and easily.
from slugbeast, www.newegg.com
cons: i have hooked it to the pc and still don't know what to do with it.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Map Quality, Nice Portability, Designation: Automobile

Garmin nuvi 205 GPS Receiver

$224.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?great value for the price what's not so great:?downloads not that easy to navigate for novice pc users "we were looking for a reasonable priced gps and were drawn to this -
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it was simple to hook it up to my pc to get updates while it charged.
from www.bestbuy.com
if you use it with a pc it seems to be fine, a friend has a garmin and a pc and has never had a problem.
from www.crutchfield.com
called next morning, waited 20 minutes, got support...transferred to software support...they jumped on my pc and altered the download.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Great Map Quality, Excellent Display, Designation: Automobile

Garmin nüvi 265WT GPS Receiver

$290.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.qvc.com
nice not to have to have additional batteries just plug into pc or car.
from www.amazon.com
firmware and map downloads work on both my mac and pc.
from www.amazon.com
there are other features like the ability to connect the 265wt to your pc and automatically add favorite locations using googlemaps.
from www.amazon.com
so i tried on my laptop which is a pc.
from www.amazon.com
(can plug the charger into the mount on the tomtom, or into the tomtom itself.) can only use the garmin cig lighter to power the unit; an alternate usb charger just showed "connected to pc" mode.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Display, Excellent Map Quality, Designation: Automobile

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