BAB, what have been your issues with Lowrance? My only issues with mine were that the old one had an internal antenna that sucked and I had to install an external antenna so it would lock a signal on the dash of my boat, it also did not survive two days upside down in the saltwater that my Humminbird survived. I like having the fuel flow meter on the Lowrance that the Humminbird does not have. Lowrance also has range rings on its GPS display though my newer one does not seem to have them calibrated to any given scale, they are just there and you have to figure out their spacing.
Having said that, there are also things I like better about the Humminbird, like being able to have the dual frequency on at the same time. I can also get the module to tie my Cannon downriggers into my depthfinder. And, as mentioned previously, their customer service has been topnotch.
As far as bottom pictures go, sometimes one seems to give me more detail than the other and sometimes it is the opposite.
I had a furuno but it was from 1991 or something so does not compare, I am sure, to theirs now. Aren't the Furunos quite a bit more expensive? They do seem more expensive, but this unit sure looks nice and not too bad of a price with its wide screen.
http://www.thegpsstore.com/Furuno-GP1870F-Color-GPSFishfinder-P3598.aspx?gclid=Cj0KEQjwuI-oBRCEi87g0K3O8OoBEiQAb25WAcfTKq-zPcHeVMfODlX0JhtFD3-WpjGfcKfol0H-nikaAqFp8P8HAQ Still have to buy the transducer though.
