Does anyone have strong feelings about in-car GPS units? I am thinking a Garmin nuvi 265.

I have something similar [link]

I think the wider screen is worth the slightly higher price.

We had the 200 series and liked it, although at some point there was either a problem with the battery or the charger, because it couldn't keep charged. We never did find out what the problem was, because it was stolen.

So my advice would be not to leave the mount where thieves can see it.

Great. I get a nice big internal drive because I see I have an empty expansion bay and an empty SATA port on the motherboard. But no rails! And the power cables don't fit the drive either. Not to mention that the cables have come off the main drive and I can't get the angle to get them back in so that machine is down until my head hurts less and I can think more clearly.

So after a tragic modem demise, I borrowed a modem from a coworker, got it set up, got a wireless router from the basement, plugged that in, and got connected. (Assume about a week's delay between each step. No, seriously.) But I'm feeling stupid because I can't figure out how to secure the network - the dead modem came from AT&T and did it automatically. I've been to [link] ect. but don't find any option there, and I can't find anything on AT&T's shittastic site either. Help? Even knowing which of those I need to dig into more thoroughly would be a start.

But no rails!

Four Dilly bar sticks from Dairy Queen. What?

And the power cables don't fit the drive either.

Well, Frell.

Well, Frell.

It only takes slimline power, and all my slimline cables were used up. But then I noticed the boot drive takes either oldschool power or slimline, so I switched things around. Drive is just lying in the bay for now, but the machine was becoming unusable with low disk space warnings every 5 minutes as I browsed the web. I don't know if rails are worth a drive back down to Fry's, or I'll order online. I just need to make sure I order just the right thing. It's a slimline drive that needs to fit into a CD-sized bay.

brenda, I secure my network at the router, not the modem. Is 192.168.0.1 your modem? What's the router IP?

Have people heard about the new google gps? People are saying regular car gps is now obsolete.

In One Fell Swoop Google Makes GPS Units Obsolete!

Verizon has been showing off its new Android based cellphone, "Droid." Today came word it ships with turn-by-turn GPS navigation. If you buy the phone this functionality is FREE!

In other words, that GPS you have built into your dashboard or mounted-by-suction on your window--obsolete!

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Word is this will be coming soon (possibly not quite as fully featured) to my iPhone. Apple and AT&T can't afford not to.

Yeah, I heard that. Since we have a $12 a month non smart phone and aren't planning to upgrade, a one-time pay GPS makes sense for us. (I mean, a Droid phone plus some $70 a month to run it would obviously be more than a $140 GPS.) I was hoping this news would make the prices fall, but I don't see that it has notably.

'Puter update. The data drives are definitely fine. The system drive had a bunch of bad sectors. After running chkdsk a bunch of times with the drive mounted in a different machine, it seemed to be OK, so I put everything back in the original computer and it booted successfully!!

Once!

During that time, the machine was very sluggish. When I tried to reboot, Windows told me it needed to be repaired. So I'm giving up on this drive. I'll get a new one and reinstall Windows and my programs from scratch. At least I know now exactly where things stand. Yay?