obooker

I am the owner of a spanking new 755T. It came with US maps. I am traveling to Europe soon, so I wanted those maps. Of course, you can buy them either on DVD or preloaded card, and I wanted to knwo the pros and cons of each.

I emailed product support, and got a very prompt answer. They should post this kind of thing on their website!

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Dear Oliver Booker,
Thank you for contacting Garmin International. I would be happy to help you with this. There are pro's and con's to both formats.
Preloaded SD card:
PROS
1. it is ready to use right out of the package
2. if you have multiple units, it will work in what ever unit you put it in
3. you do not have to purchase your own blank card
CONS
1. if you lose the card you have lost your mapping
2. you can not update the mapping in the future, you would have to buy a new card
3. you will not have a copy of the mapping to load to your computer to use for creating routes and looking up addresses on your computer
DVD
PROS
1. if you lose your SD card that you loaded the maps to, you can take another blank card and reload the map to it
2. you can purchase updates for the mapping in the future instead of having to buy all new mapping
3. it puts a copy of the mapping on your computer that you can look up addresses and create routes and then send them to your unit
CONS
1. you have to supply your own SD card
2. you have to load the mapping to the card instead of having it preloaded
3. when you install the maps to your computer, you unlock the maps to a certain unit. You can make 100 cards if you want, but they are
only going to work on the one GPS that you unlocked them to.
I hope this helps. If you have anymore questions, let me know.


With Best Regards,
Jeff L
Product Support Specialist
Automotive Team
Garmin International
913-397-8200
800-800-1020
913-440-8280 (fax) Att: Jeff L

dav

This is an amazing answer. I thought the SD cards were locked to a unit, also. According to this one SD card will work in multiple units.

Thanks for posting this response from Garmin.

Andy

Of course you have to have a device that is compatible with that type of card and can read the data. Some can't handle the NT versions of their mapsets for example.

The ability to pre-plan a route on my computer has always kept me from buying one of their cards.