I ll dive into cost later in this article. But there was another problem on the horizon as related to the larger storage chips and that was download time. Of course the batteries will not operate that long thus I had to wire my 295 for external power. The Good News is that Garmin has developed a USB Data Card Programmer and it s available today. Yes, there are a few items that we will dive into later on.
Lets talk about the programmer.
This is one heck of a deal for the time it saves. Something that struck me kind of funny was that on the back of the card programmer is Garmin's speel about what computers and GPS units will work with the programmer written in four languages. But the manual and MapSource software is written in only English as far as I could tell. As most of you know, I hate computers and have one heck of a time making them do anything I want. Often it takes me days to install new software and weeks to fix other problems I created during the new software installation.