I had a lowrance black & white 2003 unit on my trolling motor; I forget what model it was. Any way I tried to send it in to Lowrancefor repairs but was told they no longer had parts. I went to BPS and looked at buying another Lowrance with GPS and color similar to what is on my console. They told me Lowrance will not be coming out with side scanning for a while because of patent laws. They said Lowrance technology hasn't changed in 4 years and convinced me to go with humminbird. I got the 787ci2 because side scanning dosen't work well on the trolling motor. I 've only had it in the water once, last weekend so it's had to say which is better. I always thought Lowrance was it when it came to electronics but not according to BPS.