Re: Built in vs. Stand-alone GPS?
The advantage of the stand alone unit is the ability to use it in any vehicle, especially if you change vehicles often, you can take it with you, even let it run on battery power and take it with you when you go hiking. A stand alone model, you can bring inside your home (or camper) with you and at your leisure program in destination points and plot out traveling routes.
If you get the built in model, it is confined to only the one vehicle it's equipped in, and any programming you do, you'll have to be inside the vehicle to do it. Now ... do you really want to be doing that inside your vehicle when your favorite ball team is on television and it's only minutes from the game ending and the opposing team is ahead by 1 point?
If you get the built in model, it is confined to only the one vehicle it's equipped in, and any programming you do, you'll have to be inside the vehicle to do it. Now ... do you really want to be doing that inside your vehicle when your favorite ball team is on television and it's only minutes from the game ending and the opposing team is ahead by 1 point?
