Actually, I think the "updates" point was a valid one...if not for roads, at least for finding restaurants, etc.
The reason I replaced that older Garmin with the new one was because the maps were SO out of date, that on a trip from NH to south Jersey, I kept pulling off the road for restaurants that no longer existed, and I was getting pissed at the time lost.
Those maps were like 6 years old, and a new map download was $80, while a new GPS was $100.
I bought the lifetime update from Garmin for $120. 6 weeks after I bought (it had been that price for 2 years) it dropped to something like $80. Even with the updated maps, it still doesn't find everything - like the REI in Greensboro - doesn't have a clue that it is there. Yesterday we searched for the Palladium Cinema in High Point so we could get the number - no deal. But, when we went in under points of interest, it was there but it was spelled Pallidium. Probably outsourced the data entry?
