I have been using Street Atlas for many years, on my Laptop, with Earthmate GPS receiver when traveling around (car only) and like it quite a bit. Not perfect, but very serviceable.
I'm considering a new car purchase (specifically the 2004 Nissan Maxima) and see that they have a GPS (DVD-based) system available as an option.
This definitely interests me, because of the 'built-in' nature. The laptop works great, but it's cumbersome riding with it in your lap (that is, whoever's in the passenger seat doing the navigating), has to be booted on/off or otherwise dealt with when making stops, etc. And the voice instructions I find to be mostly not worth using.
How well does the Nissan GPS system work compared with Street Atlas? Better, worse, or just different? Would I be likely to be glad I got the (somewhat expensive!) built-in system, or would I be thinking of breaking out the Laptop with Street Atlas anyway?
Any thoughts/experiences here appreciated. I understand that prior Nissan systems were CD based, which was definitely a down-side, but the new version is DVD based.
Thanks!