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Kritou
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:39 pm    Post subject: Opinions on Quest 2 Reply with quote

My Quest antenna failed last week so it was returned for repairs (£74) Three days later a factory refurbished Quest 2 arrives with a note that Quests are out of stock at the moment. A quick phone call determines that a "new" batch of Quests are due in next month from Taiwan and I can do a swop if I wish

I have been more than happy with my Quest and would not normally "upgrade" after some of it's successor's reported problems with slow re-calculations - however I wonder how the CN Europe NT v9 runs with system software v 3.10?

Assuming that Garmin will give me a free unlock for the mapping I could be tempted to keep the machine, especially if I can run the full PGPS camera database rather than just the overlay

Anyone have any thoughts or experience?

Many thanks
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BeatO
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Quest 2 is slow in (re-)calculating routes, that's a fact. Compared to the new generation of Nuvi and Zumo one can say it's extremely slow.
But never the less, I would not through out my Quest 2. I run it very rarely with automatic recalculation set to on, therefore I don't have that problem.

I think a lot of features that the Q2 has since a long time are in one or the other way still missing with other units. The easy transfer of waypoints and routes created on the PC is one of the options. I'm not even sure all the newer units have these features now available.

Next I've always found my destination, the unit is reliable for my use case, which is most of the time in my car with an external antenna, sometimes on my motorbike and some other times while hiking. During most of that I didn't have any problems with the slow recalculation because I normally do not need it.

I value the possibility to be able to have large parts of Europe on the unit all the time. Up to v9 this was the complete map of Europe as Garmin made it available, with the newest update the data got too big and you've got to make a selection of which region to have in the flash with the added possibility to load more maps into the 500MB of additional memory.

On the other hand, if you heavily depend on the recalculation, it's probably a disadvantage to have the compressed NT maps on it.

Hope this helps you somewhat in the decision making.
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