Originally Posted by
njkayaker
You missed his point.
You can use the Garmin the same way you use the "cheapo GPS" you did buy and it's more useful (even if the screen is a bit too small).
The screen on the "cheapo GPS" isn't any bigger.
Yes but it's still water under the bridge, I DIDN'T buy a used GPS off eBay so I don't have it and I would STILL be looking at a 7" tablet to use to fill my wants.
I've also looked at the Galaxy Tab 2 as I realize that all the extra CPU cores and memory are of little use for my need, it's also about 1/2 the price as well.
One concern I do have about a tablet is if they truly do multitasking, I don't see any ONE software that will do mapping (with turn by turn prompting) AND provide the bike computer stuff I want. So if I start the bike computer app and switch to the GPS app to get instructions on where I'm going will the bike computer still truly run in the background and keep recording GPS waypoints and keep the stopwatch running?
And weight is of no particular concern to me either, these devices all weigh jut ounces to a few pounds.