>>475246I got a Magellan eXplorist 400 some 10+ years ago, and it was equally nightmarish.
>black and green (non-color) screen with resolution equal to or worse than the Game Boys I played with when I was a kid in the 90s>system interface is laggy>buttons are mushy rubber so you don't know if you pressed them all the way until the system responds, which was non-immediate>comes with zero maps pre-loaded, and the memory was fairly small, even for the time>to load maps, you had to connect it to your computer and run a program from CD-ROM, which had to be in your CD drive, and eventually stopped working because my CD got scratched>ugly series of cables for connecting to a computer and charging>with my particular model, it didn't "just work" with the included program. For some reason, the program was designed for a different unit and wasn't fully compatible, so you had to go through a complicated series of non-intuitive steps to load or delete maps on the unitThis was 2005-2006ish - not exactly the stone age of technology. For a dedicated GPS unit of the time, and costing some $150, it should have been capable of doing what the iPhone 3GS that I bought only a few years later, in 2009, could do right out of the box.
