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User Submitted Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 With GPS Locator[Old Version] Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-01-26 Works great, but get a GPS for a car. The road maps are better than anyone elses. The GPS homes in on the roads. For a travel log, it is great. The voice directions work well also. The only problem is you can not see a PC screen in a car/van in sunlight. I use it more for uploading maps to a GPS. Date: 2007-01-25 lots of set up time B"H I bought this because I already had a Compaq Evo N400C laptop running a Pentium III chip and wanted the cheapest GPS out there. Also, I wanted a really good locator. The price of the entire package is much less than the price of gps locator alone. And it seems to be a quick and accurate locator. I probably spent 12 hours getting this to work on my laptop. This included correspondence with microsoft support and pharos support. I kept getting "power surge at hub port" messages every time I plugged in the dongle of the gps locator. And the automatic configuration program of the gps locator couldn't find the COM port for gps. Microsoft had not a word of helpful advice. Pharos recommended testing the dongle on other machines and offered to retest the unit themselves. I uninstalled both hidden and not hidden usb drivers. Then restarted the computer, which then automatically reinstalled the drivers. This fixed the problem of finding the correct COM port. I then bought and installed a usb 2.0 cardbus (pcmci?). This fixed the "power surge at usb hub port" problem. I don't know why the OEM usb 1.1 ports couldn't handle the dongle (and neither does Microsoft), but they can't. Regarding difficulting hearing the voice commands from the laptop speakers, I bought an adapter that resembles at cassette tape and, when installed as a tape would be, plays over the car's speaker. This cost less than ten dollars. I agree that the system is hard for a solo driver to use on the fly. All the best, Dan Date: 2007-01-18 Microsoft Streets and Trips w/GPST 2007 Pros: Cost Cons: We planned our first trip and it couldn't find Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, LA. The Casino/RV resort has been there for years. It put it in Alexandria which would have totally screwed up our trip if we had depended on it to find it. MapQuest has the correct location and plotted the trip correctly. Evidently they are NOT updating the database and you can't contact them with the ID they provide...email comes back. Disappointed in the product...but it's cheap...what can you say? Date: 2007-01-18 Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 I really like it. Purchased an older laptop computer that can only except ME software. This works great for what I want to do. Software works plus bought it cheaper here on Amazon than in the chain stores. Date: 2007-01-18 Easy to Install and Use This is the easiest and least expensive GPS system available!!! My mother (who is non-technical) can use this system.
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