I jump from Tom Tom to Garmin about 5 years ago and will be buying another Garmin in the near future. You pretty much pay for the features and size you want. Life Time Maps has kept my unit current and I highly recommend the small extra in price. The feature many don't want to pay for and I will never own one without again is the voice commands. It is great being able to tell the GPS where you want to go and find places to eat while going down the road. Being able to toggle the voice on and off without trying to find it on the menus while driving is worth the extra cost alone. Not perfect voice recognition but good enough, even fun with some of the misunderstood words.