Planet Earth is on sale big time on the discovery store web site. That's the main thing I've seen so far that warrants a purchase. Plus there's a coupon for $5 off floating around on deal sites.
Anubis
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sdifox
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Originally posted by: Aikouka
What made you go for that one over the 360?
screen size mostly 4.3" VS 3.5" 45.7% bigger screen area is a big plus.
multi point routing (again, appear to be spotty)
fm transmitter (though people said it's crap)
traffic receiver is built in
Finally ordered a Dell XPS 1330 with a free Magellan Roadmate 1400
XPS laptops are almost never on sale, so this was as good as it was going to get.
XPS laptops are almost never on sale, so this was as good as it was going to get.
If you spend upwards of $1299 - $1600 they are. But all of my configurations always end up lower than that.
Aikouka
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I still have a couple bones to pick with Dell over my M1530. My advice for getting one of these is neeeever eeeeever choose a part listed with the brand name as "Dell". I did this with the network adapter since I didn't want Wireless N (had no real need for it... very unnerdy of me) and the wireless adapter is one of the worst aspects of my laptop (poor transfer rates over wired and wireless, poor connectivity, etc).
Yeah, that's kind of why I was looking to get it for my mom. It'd be nice to have a bigger screen as she's a bit older and such. Only thing that's kind of pushing me away is that she doesn't travel often, so she won't use it that much but she may get those few times a year when it comes in handy. My sister will be going away to college this year and my mom had fun driving up to Albany, which is where I got the idea from. But chances are, she may rarely need it. My car has built-in navigation and I know I barely use it and sometimes when I do use it, I don't really need it. But eh, I have no other decent gift ideas
.EDIT:
MotF, what accessories did you purchase with yours?
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hush you. we're just chatting it up.
anyway... i just looked at my cc bill online, and have promptly got OUT of the shopping mood.
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Oh come on now... I see links to deals. Deals being discussed etc etc... sounds exactly like another sub forum to me
Yeah I just rang up a pile of gifts for the kids (nothing to do with Cyber Monday). Too much in fact. Their shopping is DONE though damn it
Aikouka, I didn't buy any accessories for it. It's getting a six hour test drive back to MA for the holidays, at which point I'll see if anything is needed.
Edit:
This was pretty spontaneous. Parents planned to get me a GPS, I just saw this one with the bigger screen etc early this morning and went for it.
Edit:
This was pretty spontaneous. Parents planned to get me a GPS, I just saw this one with the bigger screen etc early this morning and went for it.
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