and the decision was....
the Magellan 310. I trotted down to J&R in lower Manhattan, and paid $108 for it after tax.
Initial impressions: does what it says on the tin. Had to walk over to East River to get an initial satellite fix, but after that, it's been working in NYC very nicely.
It will be used for real when I go on a long cross country next weekend to Gettysburg. That's a distance of.. let me see now... 152 NM from KCDW acording to my route
, which took about 5 mins to code the 5 waypoints into it.
I will be happy to report back on the outcome.
Thanks all for helping me with this
KCDW