newbie needs advice on which usb gps

Cypher007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 17

ok ive got a fast car spare weekends and like to travel round the uk and europe with the wife. so far ive wasted hours of my life trying to find places in london and antwerp, to name a few, using theaa's directions printed off. now i have an old laptop which runs autoroute 2004 reasonabley, its a p2-400 with 64mb of ram and winxp. what i would like to do is add a usb gps receiver to the mix and have incar sat nav. what i dont want to do is spend oodles of cash though. ive been looking at the leadtek and haicom stuff, is it worth paying an extra £40 to get the 9532 over say a haicom 203. what would your recomendation be, it needs to be good in canyon situations like london streets. also whats the best voice direction software for a laptop?

lbendlin · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject:

Make sure the receiver has a SiRF chipset (better even if it has optional XTrac mode). You may also end up needing an external antenna, so try and get a decently waterproof receiver.

Navigation software for the PC? Hmm, I only know Routis/Socket navigator.
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Cypher007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 17

the haicom 204s has this but not the 204e, which i think is the usb one, this is according to your comparison table. also the rikaline has it but didnt get such a good review as the leadtek. what would you go for?

DavidW · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject:

Any Haicom GPS product where the code ends in E is Evermore based. S denotes some kind of SiRF chipset, though it may be SiRF Xtrac rather than standard SiRF firmware (for example, HI-303S is XTrac - HI-303MMF is ordinary SiRF).

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