After weeks looking at every conceivble combination on the Interenet I spent hours at Sun and Fun looking at Garmin, Lowrace and other units. Jeez some of theose big screen jobs are clever, and pretty too. My wife wasn't interested because they all come in black case, don't any of these guys ever learn?
Well I'm a sucker for a deal so in the end I plumped for an Airmap 1000 because it was going about $150US under regular street price. It was my choice anyway but I would have left it a couple of months more and then bought over the Inet.
It was my choice mainly for its huge screen, my cockpit is about as bright as can be (Searey, nearly as greenhouse as a glider) but it is always easily readable, I like its intuitive controls, one day soon I'll get round to the manual, Easy loading of data bases (just plug in a standard SD card), easy PC software and it usually sets up just walking arojund my deck.
Roadmap databases are available but generally I prefer maps in the car.
I liked the colour displays on the Garmin products but the screens were much smaller and considerably more expensive. So far I am very pleased with the Airmark.