Re: GPS handheld computer from General Dynamics

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:14:30 -0500, "lostparts" <clem641@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"Nicholas" <Lawrence_Glickman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:26:51 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

One device the warfighter likes and uses is a GPS handheld computer from
General Dynamics
(Itronix) known as the GoBook MR-1.
http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=591863

List Price
MR1BCBZAZZBBAAAAAA $5,564.00

my Garmin Oregon 400t does the same thing for $5,000 less.

Would like to see you take your Garmin and drop it onto a hard surface from
3' several times. Give it a try and let us know how it works.

Well that's the thing. I save myself 5 grand by NOT dropping it. In
fact, it has its' own case now, to protect it from such events...just
in case.

The idea of any warfighter having $5,000 to shell out for his/her own
personal gps use is nonsense, when you can spend 1/10th of that and
still get a solid unit. Who needs a computer anyhow with a keyboard
that looks like it belongs on a Mattel toy? What are you going to put
on it. =Not much=
because?
If caputured by enemy, you've just given them information that could
get your buddies killed.

Lg

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