When the ability to play back your recordings after the fact on a laptop and/or desktop computer is available, what would the rush be to buy the 1197 be anyway. The more I look at it, the less sense it makes.

I can go out and do several recordings, tie off on something, switch my card over to the laptop and view the scans on the big screen, mark waypoints, add them to the HB and my Lowrance handheld. Go catch fish off the stuff I found.

So it takes a bit longer this way, but saving 2000.00 is going to go a long way. IMO