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Review by I Dont Do Reviews Anymore
Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator (2010)nnSo, you have a laptop computer and you need a GPS for your car. Hey! For way less than $100 I can get this piece of software and get going somewhere. I’ll have all sorts of travel info and map guidance and it’ll be great. Not so fast Sparky….
First you need a peppy laptop. Otherwise you’ll be waiting a long time as it grinds out your information. That’s your laptop, you say. Good, so let’s go. This program installs and updates just fine. Now take the laptop down to your car. Got an empty seat, cool, we’re going it alone. OK you won’t really want to ask you passenger to have a laptop on their lap all trip long, right? Next we install the GPS unit and remember to use the enclosed extender. You may, most likely will, need a longer cable so the sensor can rest on the top of the dashboard. Next you program your destination and the GPS acquires satellites and off you go. In a word, clunky. It works but having a laptop on the seat next to you is at the very least DISTRACTING. If you’re planning an RV trip and have a full time navigator with you. They can man the computer and help with guidance. Cool, this is for you. For the rest of us a dash mounted GPS is soooo much better.
The product works but I can’t recommend it. It’s fine for fun mapping, but as an actual vehicle GPS it fails. It’s too dangerous to use. Imagine your laptop flying around in your car in the event of an accident. Not good.