RV7AJeremy
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So the 10” G3X display has been out for roughly 7 years now. I’m about to buy two more. Thoughts from the group; is an updated display going to be released anytime soon?
So the 10” G3X display has been out for roughly 7 years now. I’m about to buy two more. Thoughts from the group; is an updated display going to be released anytime soon?
Because most of the G3X Touch system's sensors are external, Garmin can effectively upgrade the system via software (perhaps with new remote-mounted LRUs).
The only drivers for a new display would be screen resolution, RAM/CPU capacity, or physical size.
Screen resolution is probably adequate for the application, physical size is limited by the sizes of the panels the screens are designed to fit, so we're down to RAM/CPU capacity: There's no need for Garmin to produce new GDUs until the software featureset has grown so large that it doesn't fit the host platform anymore. Which seems unlikely, my understanding is that these boxes are pretty well overprovisioned.
One thing that might become a limitation is the SD-card. Garmin's G3X Touch install manual says GDU460/470 units are recommended to be used with 8 Gbyte Sandisk SD or SDHC cards, and cards up to 32 Gbytes are supported. We're now at the point where 8 Gbyte cards are too small to be readily available (16 Gbytes is the smallest I can find in my neighborhood!), and we'll only have a few more iterations left before 32 Gbyte cards are obsolete and not generally sold. Larger cards are probably usable with GDU software fixes.
- mark