arcticcatmatt

awesome, where did you get the dc power cord from? Your right, its sorta stupid to go from DC .. to AC.. then back to DC.. I have a dell inspirion (don't know if you have the same thing or not) Where are the pics of everyones mobile setups? Lets see them

if you don't find the answer you want in here contact garmin and ask them how to put in the basemap for the usa.

mine is a 17 dollar 100 watt max 85 watt continous... enough for the laptop and maybe speakers. I got it becuase it was small (see pic) and cheap.

I can't get pictures to upload here.. I got my gps and laptop working in my truck!!! Its awesome! went from a 1.5 inch screen to a 15 inch color screen! Here is a picture of my setup (I blured the screen on the laptop) http://www.snowmobilefanatics.com/forum/at...ent.asp?id=9143

I have the newest mapsource.. I wil check my numbers tonight. I can't wait for my windshield mount and my data/power cable to get in. I will also get mobile net on my phone and the cable for that. I will be a geocaching god. j/k Peter, you got a picture of your emap set up? I thought I was the only person using an old emap. I had one a long time ago and lost it while snowmobiling so I got on ebay and got another one. I love this gps! My bro has merdian gold magellan and I like my emap better still. Thanks for all of the above also.. I will keep ya posted for sure! as soon as I figure out why the dink on ebay is charging me to ship BOTH items when they are coming in the same box...

I purchased a keyspan serial to usb and it works great. All I have to do is download the drivers onto whatever pc I plug it into. I do that straight from their website. I think its www.keyspan.com then downloads then high speed serial to usb...

wow this is going to be cool! I like that voice from the laptop thing. I can't wait! Now all I need to do is figure out what size inverter I need to run the laptop. There is one here locally for 15$ that is 70 watt. I bet thats all a laptop needs.

I just purchased everything necessary to run my GPS into my laptop in the truck for geocaching. It was getting very hard to read my Garmin Emap 1.75" wide screen while going down the road. Hopefully now I can get close to the cache, unplug the emap and take it with me. The only thing I am not sure of is if I have the software to run it. The only gps software I have is MAPSOURCE from garmin and EasyGPS from online. Any help any of you could offer would be great. I don't have any friends that are into this or anything so you are all my only resource. Got pics of your mobile set up? What program do you all use that updates your postion live on the map on the laptop screen? Thanks!!!!!