Opinions on Garmin Quest 2 Please?

[Walker]

I've owned a Garmin V for a while now.  I like this unit for the following reasons:
1) waterproof and hand portable for hiking
2) small  and easily mounted in all my vehicles and bike, and packed away in the luggage for travel.
3) pretty robust design that I've dropped a couple of times, solid state memory and no HDD.
4) display can go from portrait to landscape depending on how you want to use it.

Dislikes:
1) memory is way too small, can't even load City Select maps for my entire state, let alone on a long trip, which would require me to carry my laptop along, or just make due with the basemap
2) landscape display mode when mounted in the car or bike... I wish it would display further down the road and less off to the sides of my route.
3) black and white display that is a tad too small.
4) redrawing and rerouting is very slow sometimes.
5) loading maps and routes is EXTREMELY slow (40 minutes for 19 mb!!)

So I'm looking to upgrade, and of course I'm looking at the Quest 2, which seems to be an upgraded version of the GPS V or sorts.  I like what I see for the most part, especially having all of City Select for North America loaded on as the base map, and having a color display.

What I don't like from what I can see is that there doesn't seem to be a good mounting option for it on the bike... I don't want all that cord and speaker on my bike (and is the speaker waterproof?), and a suction cup mount is unacceptable.  I really like the dash mount of my V, how it just securely slides and locks into the base, and I have a base installed in all my vehicles, and a RAM mount for my motorcycle.  Also, a suction cup mount in two of my vehicles would be unacceptable since it would put it really far away and harder to read compared to right on my dash, (or in my Audi, mounted on top of the credit card tray that slides out of the dash and hides the mount when not in use.)

So for those of you who have one, what do you think of them?  What type of mount do you use and keep it powered with?  Any other models you considered?

Thanks!

[Walker]

Hmmm... well I came to realize (just now) that the things that I like about my GPS V as a portable unit I still like, and that the Quest doesn't change from landscape to portrait display mode... I'll keep the V for use hiking, hunting, fishing, camping, etc, and as a backup gps unit in the other car and for use interfacing with my laptop and MS Streets and Trips.  This will let me load all the topo maps on.  Also, the V uses AA batteries, and with the experience I've had changing propriatary batteries in Ipaqs and iPods, I prefer standard batteries.

With that in mind I realized that the lack of portability and no internal batteries became a non-issue, so I just purchased a factory refurbished Street Pilot 2720 unit off of eBay... Now I have to find a new mount bracket to put it on my RAM mount for my motorcycle, but all my other vehichle mounts will still work just fine.

[Raphy]

I had a Quest 2...sold it...bought a Quest (1) due to the slow re-draw/screen update ... If I had the cash I'd get the Zumo 550 and have it over with... (bluetooth, mp3, touch-screen, comes with all mounts, etc.) but I'm a bargain hunter, so I got the Quest for a good price.... WHen i'm rich one day I'll spend the $600-$700 on the ZUmo 550... If you have the money, that's what i would recommend.

In terms of the Quest / Quest 2 - they use the same mounts. I have a RAM mount on mine. They are easily available from pretty much any GPS retailer.

[Hickey]

I have a Quest 2.  I wish I'd gotten the Zumo.

The Quest 2 redraws very slowly.  Sometimes right before I need it to tell me about a turn.  It also looses its signal often from what I think are relatively sparce trees or buildings.  The screen is very small.

It was only about $75 cheaper than the Zumo once I'd bought the extras I needed to mount it on a motorcycle.  Looking back on it I really wish I'd spent that extra money.