Check out this screen image from my laptop, taken from the plane on a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas on Saturday. I'm using a US GlobalSat BT-359 GPS receiver, with DeLorme Street Atlas 2007 Plus gps/map software. This is one of my favorite toys...:

 

wow, look at that speed..

 

Remember, this was taken from a plane.....look at the elevation.

 

i know. somehow, maybe when i was on my buddies bike, i had my garmin in my pocket, now the top speed is at 196 mph. i never deleted it. kind of a reminder on how fast i could die.

 

You have a TON of crap in your system tray. I bet it takes 10 min for your computer to boot... Go to run and type in msconfig then the start up tab then "disable all". That will make things a lot faster...

 

Nope, it's a T41 Thinkpad with 1.5GB of memory, and a 80GB HDD...it boots fast!!

 

Well remove all that crap and you will see what fast is all about. Removeing all that could easily cut down the desktop load time by 300%. My desktop loads in about two seconds. Why? Well for one I have a good computer but partly because I have only three items on start up.

 

spl--thanks. I've been trying to figure that out for a while now.

 

I'm impressed that you could pick up the GPS signal while inside a plane... did you have the GPS right next to a window?

 

Yes, the BT-359 fit's perfect betwen the pulldown shade, and the window.
This GPS receiver also receives and locks better than DeLorme GPS receivers I have owned in the past. I think this is due to the BT-359 using the SiRF Star III chip.

I did a comparison test between DeLorme's BlueLogger, and the BT-359, and
you can see the results here:

http://forum.delorme.com/viewtopic.p...460&highlight=