Ok, have read all the posts on the SI's and am about to fork out the big coin for an 898. Before doing so I just have to ask for two oppinions.

1- I'm spending the extra $500 for the bigger screen size. This is really stretching by budget, but like others have said you don't want to be disappointed after making a big purchase. That said... I really would like to have the $500 back. So...is it worth it (898 vs 798)? Most of me says yes but I wonder if I will really need it as I will be doing all my viewing of it at the counsole no further than 2ft from my eyeballs.

2-I'm pretty much sold on the HB over Lowerance for many reasons, but really like the Lowerance feature to rewind and go back to review previous spots and place gps points. I know you can place gps points with the HB but my understanding is you can't rewind. This is not enought to change my decesion of HB over Lowerance but, do you think Humminbird will update software with this feature?

Thanks for you input.