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Mine showed up on thursday and have been playing with it ever since. I had to update to service pack 3 in order to get the pc to talk to my wireless (I use wpa2), I downloaded the service pack onto a usb thumbdrive and then ran it from the drive.
I found that, considering the specs, I have no issues with start up times and as the last poster noted, the dashboard is prompt. GPS signal is decent, I tried it on the second floor of a three story house, about 50% of the time I get a green signal (meaning 4 or more satelites locked in). I am not very happy with the Navteq software included, it is very counterintuitive and difficult to navigate. At some point I will be trying out different software.
Apparently, through a lot of searching the web, there are no drivers available for the computer if the drive crashes, something I think is entirely possible considering the fact that 1.8 drives do not have as many safeguards as their bigger cousins. I highly recommend a drive image be made. I have done that using apricon EZ gig II.
As an aside, I installed Hava player on the computer and with the stream bitrate setting on 4Mb/s. I have a clear and stutter free image. I have a Hava titanium HD wireless for the sending unit.
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