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We have been looking at car GPS systems for some time and for a variety of reasons have settled on Garmin products. However, Garmin has a lot of product and they do a very poor job of explaining the differences between them. So we spent 2 hours grinding through Garmin.com and other sites trying to create a list of the meaningful differences between the current generation “Garmin Drive” products. Below is the product Garmin GPS feature table we developed.
Before you get to the table be aware that there are a few gotcha’s:
We settled on the Garmin DriveAssist because it has a front facing webcam that:
If you want to see a video of the unboxing, core configuration and review of the Garmin DriveAssist 51, we have ours HERE.
Take note that we are not Garmin experts so, while it is unlikely, it is possible there are mistakes in the table. If you are using this table for a purchase decision, please double check your specs before buying.
We highlighted the main features of the current generation “51” line we thought you would care about.
| Feature | Garmin Drive | Garmin DriveSmart | Garmin DriveAssist | Garmin DriveLuxe |
| Lifetime Live Traffic data from FM??? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lifetime Live Traffic data from Cell | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lifetime Live Parking Data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WiFi For Updates | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Smartphone App | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Voice Activated Navigation | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bluetooth | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Display Texts (from your cell) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Speaker Phone (from your cell) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lifetime Map Updates in NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Two Finger Pinch & Zoom Touchscreen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Powered Mount | No | No | No | Yes |
| Screen Size | 5 or 6″ | 5 or 6″ | 5″ | 5 or 6″ |
| Screen Resolution | 480×272 | 480×272 | 480×272 | 800×400 |
| Colour Screen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MicroSD Expansion Memory Slot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dashcam | No | No | Yes | No |
| Lane Departure Warning | No | No | Yes | No |
| Collision Avoidance Warning | No | No | Yes | No |
| Driver Alerts (i.e. sharp curve ahead) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Light & Speed Camera Warning | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weather Related Routing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Can Pair with Garmin Backup Cam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Battery Length in Mins | 60 | 60 | 30 | 60 |
| Weight | 170g | 243g | 191g | 231g |
| Chassis Material | Plastic | Plastic | Plastic | Metal |
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| Hardware | Low-end 500 or fewer clients | Typical 500–3,000 clients | High-end 3,000–20,000 clients, or rollup of 30,000 clients | Super high-end 10,000 clients, or rollup of 100,000 clients |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 1 GHz | 1.5 GHz or faster | 3 GHz hyper threaded processor, x64 hardware | 3 GHz hyper threaded dual processor |
| Graphics card | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp | 16 MB hardware accelerated PCI/AGP video card capable of 1-24*86*16bpp |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Page file | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory | At least 1.5 times physical memory |
| I/O subsystem |
Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives |
Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives | Fast ATA/IDE 100 hard disk or equivalent SCSI drives |
| Network card | 10 MB | 100 MB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Hard drive—system partition | 1 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Hard drive—content storage | 20 GB | 30 GB | 30 GB | 30 GB |
| Hard drive—SQL Server installation | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB |
To have the PC’s on your network use your new WSUS server you need to make a few simple registry entries which you can easily handle using the following Group Policy:
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