On May 23, 10:44 pm, "Peter Westerkamp-TBRR"
Is this too good to be true, could it be that Lowrance is planning a release
soon of a 2000x with weather?

I like the unit but would like to avoid buying a unit that could be obsolete
in months.

Peter,
I surely hope that Lowrance will introduce the long-awaited
aviation GPS with weather at Oshkosh this year. Last year, the
salesman told me that they would introduce the unit at S-n-F but it
appeared that they were late. Early this year, I came across some
web postings claiming that he/she was beta-testing the Lowrance GPS
with weather so it looked very promising that such unit would be
available soon.

Whether the 2000 w/o weather is obsolete or not depends on your
need. We have the Airmap 1000 and it serves our navigation need just
fine. We do want the weather capability and will likely buy the new
Lowrance unit with weather (keeping the 1000 as backup). The Garmin
396/496 display is just too small for me. BTW, I would not be
surprise if Garmin introduces a new unit big bigger screen soon.

Tablet PC with SSD for navigation/weather, approach/enroute/
sectional charts display is another option that I will consider. It
has been available for a while but the cost is a bit too high. With
many mfgs (Samsung, Sandisk, Transcend, TDK, Ridata, Ritek etc.)
making 32gb SSD, I expect the price of SSD will come down
significantly in the next few months.


Hai Longworth