Price Drop in Garmin Portables

The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an OK
from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone know
more info?

Marco

Marco Leon wrote:
The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an OK
from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone know
more info?

Just like what happened with the 396.

"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an
OK from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone
know more info?

Marco

There has been a persistent rumor of a 596 in the works. Other than a
larger screen with a vertical orientation, I can't imagine what upgrades are
possible.

I'm still holding out for drag and drop weather control where you put a
cursor over the weather that is in your way and then do a mouse drag to move
the weather clear of your flight path. ;-)

KB

Kyle Boatright wrote:

There has been a persistent rumor of a 596 in the works. Other than a
larger screen with a vertical orientation, I can't imagine what upgrades are
possible.

A touchscreen like every $200 auto GPS on the market ?

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message . ..


I'm still holding out for drag and drop weather control where you put a cursor over the weather that is in your way
and then do a mouse drag to move the weather clear of your flight path. ;-)

KB


I LIKE that one!

"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an
OK from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone
know more info?

Kyle Boatright wrote:
There has been a persistent rumor of a 596 in the works. Other than a
larger screen with a vertical orientation, I can't imagine what upgrades are
possible.

I'm still holding out for drag and drop weather control where you put a
cursor over the weather that is in your way and then do a mouse drag to move
the weather clear of your flight path. ;-)

That works well until the 15 guys that are flying where you moved the
weather to move it back to your flight path.

"john smith" wrote in message
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"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an
OK from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon...
Anyone know more info?

Kyle Boatright wrote:
There has been a persistent rumor of a 596 in the works. Other than a
larger screen with a vertical orientation, I can't imagine what upgrades
are possible.

I'm still holding out for drag and drop weather control where you put a
cursor over the weather that is in your way and then do a mouse drag to
move the weather clear of your flight path. ;-)

That works well until the 15 guys that are flying where you moved the
weather to move it back to your flight path.

They will have the 696 in another year. With it, you can just highlight
those 15 other guys and put 'em in pause mode...

KB

"john smith" wrote in message
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That works well until the 15 guys that are flying where you moved the
weather to move it back to your flight path.

Yeah but those 15 guys have to go out and buy the 596 to get that
capability. Brilliance. Hey Kyle, do you work for Garmin's marketing
department??

Marco

Garmin needs to drop their prices on much more than just a measly $400
off their top end model.

They need to quit being such greedy bastages and come out with a nice
basic, easy to use, portable aviation GPS with large color "portrait"
screen, with WAAS, terrain/obstacle data, airport data, built-in
flight log and E6B calculator features, "land mode", etc, etc, etc,
and sell it for under $800 with all the common accessories such as
cables, yoke mounts, etc, all included in the package price.

Oh wait... I've just described the Lowrance 2000C !!!!!!

Kyle Boatright wrote:
"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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Marco


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I'm still holding out for drag and drop weather control where you put a
cursor over the weather that is in your way and then do a mouse drag to move
the weather clear of your flight path. ;-)

KB



It took me a second to understand this comment. That is great and what a
nice feature that would be.
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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI