Thread: Besides Humminbird or Lowrance

Any actual owners of other brands that care to comment?

I just put a Garmin 73sv on my boat really like it but some do not like the map quality on them.

Joey, I am not sure about the whole complaint about Humminbird. I sorta look at it like a laptop. The minute you walk out of the store with the latest,greatest it is only months from being obsolete. At that point you can either upgrade or hold on to the tech. you have and live with it. I don't think that upgrading every time the newest comes out is necessary. When buying a new boat or if you are ready have at that. All this being said look at Garmin. I have some friends that do a lot, and I mean a lot, of cat fishing and they are very satisfied with it.

Originally Posted by Boa3

Joey, I am not sure about the whole complaint about Humminbird. I sorta look at it like a laptop. The minute you walk out of the store with the latest,greatest it is only months from being obsolete. At that point you can either upgrade or hold on to the tech. you have and live with it. I don't think that upgrading every time the newest comes out is necessary. When buying a new boat or if you are ready have at that. All this being said look at Garmin. I have some friends that do a lot, and I mean a lot, of cat fishing and they are very satisfied with it.

I get the laptop thing your talking about and completely agree and would be happy buying a gen1 helix 10. But I'm scared to update it to get some of the features I need because the update may screw the machine up. I've read many, many complaints about update issues. Where there's smoke, There's fire.

I dunno. Maybe I'm over thinking the whole thing...

First .... The product life for the Onix has been about 5 years. (That is a VERY long product life for any electronic device) When you bought yours 2 years ago it had been on the market 3 years. There is supposed to be a big software release for the Onix in March that will allow it to share mega imaging from the Stolix in addition to a number of other things. Most people who have one believe it has the best imaging on the market .... maybe not now that the mega and Stolix have been released.

There were a LOT of problems with the Onix with it's initial release, but most have been resolved .... and hopefully any remaining issues will be resolved with the coming release.

So .... Humminbird is continuing to support the Onix and is updating it to be fully compatible with the new technology. I communicate on a regular basis with someone who runs pretty much all models of all units as part of his business and he still thinks the Onix is the best of all. He has told me that some of the other vendors not mentioned by you don't begin to compare as far as imaging quality goes....So, I think you will be going downhill to anything else from the Onix.

Thanks for the honest response Bob. I too am scared that I will be downgrading image quality by switching brands.
I loveed the Onix. Just don't want to drop the coin on a new unit and have to go through the whole process of Humminbird trying to work out the bugs.

Don't know what I'm gonna buy yet. May still end up with a Bird on the console.

ONIX 2.70 fixed most of the issues except for a few minor inconveniences ...
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I highly rrecommend waiting at least until this new ONIX software comes out in March ...

Then give it a few weeks for the guinea pigs (like me) to test it ...

Rickie