I hope not to open a can of worms here, but I have a long(ish) and much hated relationship with Garmin. This company needs some serious competition as their devices really do suck. Sooo, here's a brief visit of my history with Garmin and other devices. All I really want is mapping with turn directions and basic distance, average speed, elevation gain a plus. I do NOT need all the other crapahola like virtual partner etc.

Original Garmin ($300 at the time) from way back fell off my bike, not found despite searching through brush along a busy road, due to their faulty handlebar mount. Garmin 500 bought for my hubby who WANTS someone to steal it and the endless complaining makes my head hurt (the thing can easily take 5 miles to find satellites while saying "working" the whole time - um, dear Garmin NOT working would be more appropriate message). My 800 that I initially had about a 50% success rate at getting my total mileage that slowly increased to 90% after I figured out all the user required stuff I had to do to get it to work. And remember to do this on every single ride. Someone stole it off my bike (another sordid story I'll gladly tell if you're interested).

Now that YOUR head likely hurts, is there ANY reasonable competition for a Garmin gps computer? I tried a Magellan but it didn't work with a Mac without a separate software download. I might revisit Magellan. Maybe their gps computer works out of the box with Macs now??

Excuse the rant. I really want a gps computer with maps and downloadable direction capability (ridewithgps etc) and will likely buy another Garmin if there is nothing else out there.