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> wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>>One device the warfighter likes and uses is a GPS handheld computer from
>>>>General Dynamics
>>>>(Itronix) known as the GoBook MR-1.
>>>> http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=591863
>>> List Price
>>> MR1BCBZAZZBBAAAAAA $5,564.00
>>> my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less.
>>>>One device the warfighter likes and uses is a GPS handheld computer from
>>>>General Dynamics
>>>>(Itronix) known as the GoBook MR-1.
>>>> http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=591863
>>> List Price
>>> MR1BCBZAZZBBAAAAAA $5,564.00
>>> my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less.
>>Would like to see you take your Garmin and drop it onto a hard surface
>>from
>>3' several times. Give it a try and let us know how it works.
>>from
>>3' several times. Give it a try and let us know how it works.
> Well that's the thing. I save myself 5 grand by NOT dropping it. In
> fact, it has its' own case now, to protect it from such events...just
> in case.
> The idea of any warfighter having $5,000 to shell out for his/her own
> personal gps use is nonsense, when you can spend 1/10th of that and
> still get a solid unit. Who needs a computer anyhow with a keyboard
> that looks like it belongs on a Mattel toy? What are you going to put
> on it. =Not much=
> because?
> If caputured by enemy, you've just given them information that could
> get your buddies killed.
> Lg
"my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less." You wish don't
> fact, it has its' own case now, to protect it from such events...just
> in case.
> The idea of any warfighter having $5,000 to shell out for his/her own
> personal gps use is nonsense, when you can spend 1/10th of that and
> still get a solid unit. Who needs a computer anyhow with a keyboard
> that looks like it belongs on a Mattel toy? What are you going to put
> on it. =Not much=
> because?
> If caputured by enemy, you've just given them information that could
> get your buddies killed.
> Lg
think it will even come close.
wrote:
>> wrote:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>One device the warfighter likes and uses is a GPS handheld computer from
>>>>>General Dynamics
>>>>>(Itronix) known as the GoBook MR-1.
>>>>> http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=591863
>>>> List Price
>>>> MR1BCBZAZZBBAAAAAA $5,564.00
>>>> my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less.
>>>Would like to see you take your Garmin and drop it onto a hard surface
>>>from
>>>3' several times. Give it a try and let us know how it works.
>>>>>One device the warfighter likes and uses is a GPS handheld computer from
>>>>>General Dynamics
>>>>>(Itronix) known as the GoBook MR-1.
>>>>> http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=591863
>>>> List Price
>>>> MR1BCBZAZZBBAAAAAA $5,564.00
>>>> my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less.
>>>Would like to see you take your Garmin and drop it onto a hard surface
>>>from
>>>3' several times. Give it a try and let us know how it works.
>> Well that's the thing. I save myself 5 grand by NOT dropping it. In
>> fact, it has its' own case now, to protect it from such events...just
>> in case.
>> The idea of any warfighter having $5,000 to shell out for his/her own
>> personal gps use is nonsense, when you can spend 1/10th of that and
>> still get a solid unit. Who needs a computer anyhow with a keyboard
>> that looks like it belongs on a Mattel toy? What are you going to put
>> on it. =Not much=
>> because?
>> If caputured by enemy, you've just given them information that could
>> get your buddies killed.
>> Lg
>> fact, it has its' own case now, to protect it from such events...just
>> in case.
>> The idea of any warfighter having $5,000 to shell out for his/her own
>> personal gps use is nonsense, when you can spend 1/10th of that and
>> still get a solid unit. Who needs a computer anyhow with a keyboard
>> that looks like it belongs on a Mattel toy? What are you going to put
>> on it. =Not much=
>> because?
>> If caputured by enemy, you've just given them information that could
>> get your buddies killed.
>> Lg
>"my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less." You wish don't
>think it will even come close.
R U Kidding me? Inside the house, I get 8 bars. Outside, I get up to
>think it will even come close.
12. It has Tele Atlas maps, automatic firmware update, and Navtec
routable roads, so you can do a road overlay on top of the terraine.
If I want a computer to go along with it, I can get a ruggidized
Panasonic that has a _real_ keyboard, and still have money left over.
Now, it is =possible= to find these on ebay, for $1,800. One just
sold within minutes of being posted, with no others in inventory. It
had only been opened for inspection.
For police car use, taxicab use, mobile vehicle use, great. Then you
need a Panasonic Powerbook or somesuch bullet resistant
kevlar-keyboarded unit that can take shock all day long. But in
reality, even THOSE don't survive more than 6 months under Real World
use. For a municipality getting government funds, they don't care;
they just replace them at taxpayer's expense.
For individual citizens, we have to go to the bank, and I can think of
a whole bunch of stuff I can buy with an extra $5,000 bucks that I
=didn't= spend on a glorified gps.
Like an Irridium Sat Phone, for example, if the constellation hasn't
completely collapsed yet. Or an EPIRB, and a whole bunch of camping
equipment. Well it's _your_ money, you get to decide how to
spend/waste it. It's the American Way, afterall.
Lg
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