Review: Garmin Mobile PC

I have the software only version and love it! I drive all over the Chicagoland area daily and have not had any routing problems. Garmin Mobile PC is very accurate! And thanks for offering this contest.

It is my pleasure to announce that the following two people have been randomly selected as the winners of the following product:

• Garmin Mobile PC with USB GPS20x receiver
  1. Keith
  2. bogi

The following is the complete list of all the winners, including those in the other product categories: RocketKid, Ken1963, Diabalo, murf, LinuxOnAMD64, sledgehampster, t1dunn, ktrack, Keith, and bogi.

Thanks to all for your participation.

See you in the forums.

WAW, I am winner!

Thank you Marvin!

Greetings from Slovakia to all laptopgpsworld readers.

Now this is amazing. is I think the second time in my life I won a contest!
Thank you Marvin and to all the readers and contributors to this wonderful forum. I hope everyone has a blessed and joyous holiday season.

Regards
Keith

Can routes be screened by vehicle size (height and length)?

No as the routing data does not include overheight or load limit information.

Terry

Has anyone tried this in their boat? Does it show your boat position on the lake or river?
Mortaci

Yes, it will show you your position on a map, no matter where you are, land or water. Topo maps are particularly good for giving accurate shorelines of bodies of water.

BUT, boats normally use charts, not maps, the difference being that charts show the depth of the water, navigation aids, submerged rocks, etc. while maps do not. If you don't care about hitting submerged rocks or reefs or whatever you're good to go.

Garmin no longer makes charts that can be loaded into a computer for use in Garmin nRoute or Garmin Mobile PC and when they did they would only display properly in nRoute, not in Mobile PC.

Edit: Correction: As Terry points out below, Garmin does make several different freshwater lake products, the Inland Lakes series for the US and Canada and the LakeMaster series for the American mid west. I had forgotten about these as I don't use them, living on the Atlantic coast.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=13484#mapTab

Click on "View additional maps for this product" and scroll down to the "On the Water" section.

It will show your position anywhere on earth. The difficulty is obtaining mapping data for lakes and rivers in your area. Although Garmin does sell lake map data for many North America locations, I suspect it might not be suitable for use with Mobile PC.

Terry

I take that back. Garmin Inland Lakes is compatible with Mobile PC. If you are considering Mobile PC for this use, make sure you get the version which includes a GPS (USB 20x or BT 20x). That will allow you to unlock the lake map products to it. The lake maps do cost extra though.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=1404&pvID=2691

Terry

Updated Garmin Mobile PC version 5.00.70

Discussion here: Garmin Mobile PC 5.00.70 (February 19, 2010)

The new 5.00.70 version has a know issue that is being discussed here: Garmin Mobile PC 5.00.70 randomly crashing while driving

Garmin is aware of it: