1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Avoid SA2003 & 4 & Read other One Star reviews - all true., 2004-06-10
I - like all but 2 of the 38 others who have written reviews - completely agree that this is the most unfriendly SA version ever. They told me via their Support email that there is no way to eliminate the Splash Screen (which on my PIII/500 takes a full minute to go away). I just want to say this.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read all the negative feedback - I have used SA6 & 7 - and without any doubt - all of the negative comments are unquestionably valid. If I could give this product a negative rank - so that it brought the ranking to ZERO stars - I would.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Horrible, horrrible, ...., 2003-10-27
I bought the whole bundle including the GPS reveiver, USB adapter, and the software. It was very freaky. I just got it to work less than three times. Every time, it worked and stopped without reason. The most error messages are something like "Can not initialize Find tab!". I had contacted Delorme customer service, searched all the useful information online, done all I was told, and finally it just simply does't work any more.Look like Delorme's qulity control is really poor. The same is the knowlegde of their customer support. Stay away if you can.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Delorme, what have you done???!!!!, 2003-08-30
First off, I have to say, I have been a huge Street Atlas USA fan since version 1.0. Yes, I've been using this program for over 10 years and I used it almost every day and loved it. The last version I used was version 7.0 and the maps were starting to get out of date, so I upgraded to the 2003 version.It is awful!! Downright awful! First off, the interface is confusing and doesn't follow standard Windows applications. I've gotton use to it, but the user interface is really bad. The help files aren't that good either. Second, the maps look horrible! The detail settings are way off. There is either not enough detail or too much detail. The old versions worked much better. Third, this program is slow as a pig. The old versions were really fast and responsive even on a Pentium 90 Mhz laptop. The version was VERY sluggish on a my Dell Pentium 3 733 Mhz. Although the performance is acceptable now that I have a 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4. They seem to have completly rewritten the software and it [isn't very good]! It's a real shame. I would have rather had the old version of the software with updated maps.
Don't use this on the road with your GPS, 2003-08-28
If you plan to use this on the road with a GPS, man this is really bad.
After getting on the road I recieved some really strange messages. Messages with directions that just don't make sense. Gives messages on major turns only if the road name changes. Late messages, for example after entering a ramp on to a freeway being notified that I would be there in a few seconds.
No sense of being off route, keeps on giving directions as if on the plotted route
Thus no automatic rerouting. So if you get off route you have to manually put it "on track"
Bottom line this is really usless with a GPS.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Street Atlas has a difficult interface, 2003-08-19
After using Street Atlas 2003 since its release, I have found it one of the most frustrating items of software in more than twenty years of micro computer experience. I found the previous versions much easier to use.
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