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[GottaDEAL]

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[i-bystander]

Why are these dang things so expensive? Somebody school me on the goodness of GPS and what it does - I'm clueless.

[mrn8]

My Axim X30 and Dell GPS only cost me ~$300 total. I'm not sure what the advantage of having one of these is.

[Brad]

These are more expensive because they are dedicated devices. This one has a 20GB hard drive with all the maps loaded, unlike a PDA where you'll most likely only be able to have a smaller area loaded on a memory card. They also usually have many for features than the GPS apps found on PDAs. Kind of the same reason people with PDAs still use dedicated MP3 players.