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Garmin are slow to calculate when it's new out of the box generally (base on mine and customer's Garmin).
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There was a fairly big discussion on this topic earlier about GLONASS actually and whether it eat more battery or not.
Some says its finding satellite quicker thus less time searching, others adamant that it drain battery more having two system running.
IMO, it's the screen that drain the majority of the batteries.
edscoble
@hippy
First short ride with 1000:
Pros
It didn't crash
You don't need to set turn by turn for every course individually (once I found it)
Cons
It's heavy and long so rotates on my TT mount.
It's slow calculating and recalculating, actually seems slower than 800 but maybe that's because I used the recalculate on route option?
When it's calculating or telling you you're off course it doesn't redraw the screen, so it looks like you're still on the course - cue extra mile detour to get to next RAB for a uturn.
The screen didn't respond well to my gloves - lucky they're full of holes so finger tip works better.
Probably more but I'll get used to it I guess.
Oh battery life down to 60% after a couple of hours. I'm going to disable Glonass to see if it's any better. Nothing else like WiFi or Bluetooth is on.