Lowarnce or Humminbird

I have been looking into getting a gps graph with side imaging and down scan. What is the diff in lowarnce and humminbird? And where would you recommend me getting one at?

I do not know much about the Hummingbird product, but I just bought the Lowrance HDS7 and HDS8 units along with the downscan. Wow! It is awesome. I would recommend you get the largest screen size you can afford. Check out either of these two places. They are great people and will answer any questions you might have: bbgmarine.com (this is where I got mine) and threeriversmarine.net. I do not think you will be disappointed. Check out the BBC forum and you can do some research on the two brands and see some of the screen shots.

Good luck!

Yeah, the bigger the screen the better. There' s a whole lot of info to look at. I have the HB 898 and I really like it. No complaint's. I think the brand is just a personal preference just Ford vs chevy.

I just bought a new 798ci dh si. I did a ton of research on both units, it seemed that the Hummingbird was the best for my style of fishing. Like a earlier post, there is a ton of great info on the bbc website. I bought mine from [URL="http://www.universalmania.com"]www.universalmania.com[/URL]. It was the cheapest place I found. Ordered it on a tuesday got it on thursday for no extra charge.

I have had great customer service from Hummingbird. I wish i could say the same about Lowrance.

Do your home work ask lots of questons and make sure there is no hidden stuff to buy and if there is how much it will cost and how big it is.
Like this Lowarance HD-7 unit [URL]http://www.basspro.com/Lowrance-HDS7-Fishfinder/GPS-Chartplotter/product/103483/-1549189[/URL]

You will still need to buy this to make it work [URL]http://www.basspro.com/Lowrance-LSS1-StructureScan-Sonar-Imaging-System/product/10204783/-1650137[/URL]

As far as there customer service being bad take what you here with a grain of salt I mean if you cal any C/S and ack like an a$$ I'm sure the person on the other end will hang up on you I know I would and I would probably throw some nice tid bits in with it as I hung up on your but.
Best of luck I'm sure you will love witch ever unit you buy and for what its worth I baught a hummin bird back in march.. It's a 596d HD DI ( It was all i could afford) [URL]http://www.basspro.com/Humminbird-Fishfinder-596c-HD-DI-Sonar-Fishfinder/product/10210563/-1764753[/URL]
I got it insted of the lowerance because it came with the sonar and the EQ lowrance didn't [URL]http://www.basspro.com/Lowrance-Elite5x-DSI-Color-Fishfinder/product/10209989/-1753761[/URL]

Over on BBC I've heard a ton of people talk about the difference in customer service between Lowrance and HB....They say the HB is much better than the Lowrance....I've never personally dealt with either one, but that seems to be what everybody says....I know the Lowrance units had a ton of problems when they came out....About half the people I knew that had one, had problems....Tons of them were taking on moisture...Yet to hear anything bad about the HB units...I looked very seriously into getting one and did all my homework and from the results I could gather, HB seemed to be the way to go

I have the hds-7 with structure scan, and I really like it. lowrance has a new unit out that does kinda the same thing as the structure scan. I think it's the 5x dsi I looked at it at bass pro. for around 600.00 as for the water problem, when I get through fishing, I always stop at the car wash and wash my boat, and the hds-7 gets washed as well. bought it for Christmas 09 and it had never been off the boat, or never had a problem with it, until I downloaded the new solfware 4.0 and then it started freezing up, I called lowrance, the guy I talked to was very nice. told me to send it back to lowrance. it was gone exactly 2 weeks from the day I mailed it. they fixed for free, and gave me a new cover for it for free. and it once again works great.