Been lurking and reading...been an avid Lowrance fan for 25 years. Only experience with hummingbird was early after I replaced my Lowrance flasher with my first "pixel" graph. Anyway, was really thinking about the new HDS from Lowrance but then a friend mentioned HP and SI.

Went to their site and was looking at what I thought was the new line...found this... 997c SI Combo.

Then I stumbled onto this site...looks like it is directly connected with HP.Humminbird 997C SI Combo w/ Transom-Mount Transducer, 406970-1

Now correct me i I am wrong, but HB has been having some problems with "software" in conjunction with their gps. Looking through both sites the "Factory Outlet" product has a "NOTICEABLE"
and in RED description of their new setup, and I quote "16 Channel WAAS/EGNOS GPS Receiver Included".

On the other website, there is no mention of this. Am I looking at this wrong? I have tried to compare both products and look for similiarities and difference. The only thing I noticed so far was that in the description of the product. The outlet store has a capital "C" after 997. The HB site only provides a lower case "c". Guess maybe I need to know and understand the hierarchy in this regards to their naming system and what year each one represents.

Any thoughts?