Thomas Borchert borchert_thomas asked:

1. What's your budget?

Open to all, just don't want to buy the most expensive if it has a lot of
features I'll never use, and don't want to buy one for half the price and wish
I'd gotten the one with everything!

2. Do you want color?

That's one of the things I wanted input on. How important is it? Does it make
it easier or more difficult to see? I've heard that the color one is harder to
see in sunlight. Is that true?

3. Do you want land navigation, too?

Not my first criteria, but wouldn't mind having it.

4. Do you own a PocketPC PDA?

No.

Many people tend to look only at the Garmin line
of products.

That's all I've seen/read about so far.

the new line of Garmins fill that bill

I was about to take the plunge and get the Garmin 296 when someone said that at
Oshkosh, Garmin just introduced a two new ones for half the price. Do they have
half the features, too? How do they compare to the 196 and 296?

Is the G296 the ultimate, "probably won't ever need anything else" choice?