Tasgunsmith

You're a more patient man than I. Which model is it? How many geocaches/waypoint have you loaded? Is there any noticeable lag time when switching nav screens? Not so much patient but persistent I guess. Triton 2000 I havent loaded that many maybe a dozen so far and probably never have loaded that many in the past and usually keep them down to only what I need in any one day so that I don't have to search or scroll around too much. The lag doesn't seem to be consistant, sometimes it's fast, sometimes its slow but my Explorist 500 did the same on occasions. Someone mentioned that its not acceptable for any computer to have problems..... thats what my wife says and she runs a MAC or has been for the last few years and pushes it real hard and she has never had ONE problem apart from the dog chewing the power cord. Cant wait until MAC bring out a GPSr

Due to the Tritons not yet being available in Australia I bought one from the US. It arrived five days ago and has taken that amount of time to figure out all of it's features. I have read a lot of posts about the unit being unreliable or hard to figure out. Most of this seems to be due to the instruction manual being too simplistic and incomplete and most expecting it to operate like all their past Magellans. After the big learning curve with lots of fiddling and head scratching I have found the unit to be a good one and I must add that everything works. The unit will freeze on occasions, usually due to operator error and pushing it to do something that you shouldn't, but, hey, what computer doesn't on occasions? Most of the features are a plus and once you get the hang of the format, easy to use. The Vantage software is just brilliant and seems to contain anything that is needed. Just remember that the OS is nothing like what you are probably used to and it will take some time to get it all together...... I wanted to chuck it to the sh..house on numerous occasions but now the Explorist 500 is second fiddle.

Love to help....email darlene@acmeengineering.com.au Cheers