Rod Speed wrote:
> Daryl Walford <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Snapper wrote:
>>> Who of you owns a GPS, or more specifically a car navigator?
>>>
>>> Tom Tom, a Netherlands based company has re****ted 80 percent
>>> reduction in revenue. One of the reasons cited is that while prices
>>> have dropped, volume of sales hasn't increased in pro****tion to
>>> maintain profit levels. This is because the market is probably
>>> saturated, an analyst said.
>
>> I've thought about buying one several times but every time I've
dismissed the idea because I wouldn't use it often
>> enough to justify the cost.
>
> There's plenty in the <$200 now.
Which is still considerably more than a street directory.
>
>> My job takes me to all over Melbourne but I still can't see the value
in a Navigator when a Melways for a tenth of the
>> price and works just as well.
>
> It doesnt work anything like as well.
>
It does if you already know your way around pretty well, after 30+ years
of driving around Melbourne for work I can find any suburb without
looking in the directory, I do use it to find individual streets but
thats not difficult to do.
The exception would be if you were in very unfamiliar territory, like
being interstate then a navigator would very useful, if I often drove
interstate then I would buy one.
Daryl
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