<p>I couldn’t resist. I bought one thru Costco!</p>
<p>Ha! Congratulations.</p>
<p>It also has a lot of things you will never use.<br>
An MP3 player.<br>
Photo storage.<br>
Language translation (extra $ for the software).</p>
<p>Neat toy!</p>
<p>I don’t want/need it for my car at home- I need it for when I get off an airplane and have no idea where I am or driving to college for drop off time.</p>
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<p>Yup. That’s why the ones that fit in your shirt pocket are so nice. It takes away the stress of making wrong turns, trying to find the hotel in the rain, etc.</p>
<p>fourkidsmom - once you start using it, your brain is disabled and you won’t be able to find your way out of the garage without it. I’m convinced that the kids growing up using them would starve to death sitting across the street from a McDonalds without them. But, I love mine - came with my Prius - and my daughter is getting one for Christmas.</p>
<p>What’s the difference between the Nuvi 660 and the Nuvi 650?</p>
<p>Just checked the costco website…the Garmin Nuvi 250W is 299$. They are NOT offering the Nuvi 660 or 350 that consumer reports recommended.</p>
<p>My vote is for tomtom, the maps are updated automatically which is great. has traffic info too. Of course I bought the 910 when it first came out for $999 and it’s down to like $300 a year later, but I have been very pleased with it’s quality and reliability, battery life is very good as well.</p>
<p>Perfect article that describes gps addiction:
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin</a></p>
<p>…Like many men, I quickly established a romantic attachment to my G.P.S. I found comfort in her tranquil and slightly Anglophilic voice. I felt warm and safe following her thin blue line. More than once I experienced her mercy, for each of my transgressions would be greeted by nothing worse than a gentle, “Make a U-turn if possible.” </p>
<p>After a few weeks, it occurred to me that I could no longer get anywhere without her. Any trip slightly out of the ordinary had me typing the address into her system and then blissfully following her satellite-fed commands. I found that I was quickly shedding all vestiges of geographic knowledge. </p>
<p>It was unnerving at first, but then a relief. Since the dawn of humanity, people have had to worry about how to get from here to there. Precious brainpower has been used storing directions, and memorizing turns. I myself have been trapped at dinner parties at which conversation was devoted exclusively to the topic of commuter routes.</p>
<p>My G.P.S. goddess liberated me from this drudgery. She enabled me to externalize geographic information from my own brain to a satellite brain, and you know how it felt? It felt like nirvana…</p>
<p>Wow. I went back to the Costco site, and the 650 sold out!</p>
<p>I looked at mine and it was the 350, not the 650.</p>
<p>OMG
kathiep
i’m seriously loling
I was JUST about to post that article
:D</p>
<p>Costco online has the 650 for $299 for a limited time period. This is 150 off the regular Costco price</p>
<p>That’s the same deal I got two weeks ago and it sold out quickly. If you are looking for a GPS, I think this is a pretty good deal.</p>
<p>I have had the Garmin Streetpilot 2610 for several years now. It is wonderful.</p>