Quote Originally Posted by boybi View Post
problem lang with lower end models is the loading time at startup. if you have a huge map with lots of POIs, it would take a while before you can use your gps.

I loaded a complete map of europe into a friend's garmin (1200 series or was it 1400?), it took almost 30min to load!
Yes bro.,- However, that is offline with a computer.

It appears that loading is not direct addressing to the flash memory of the Garmin unit, but through some flash controller/buffer. That should account for the long loading time...

However, access time of the map, when the Garmin unit is in use, is fast.

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