Dude, I've had really good luck with my legacy Pinpoint 7520s...

I have one up front and one on the drivers console.

If you are running motorguide, there was a merger/acquisition that happened, and you might already have a pinpoint read trolling motor if its a Motorguide. Slim chance, you probably would have explored that already...

Anway, my PinPoints are circa 2001 technology, and for black and white graphs, that can go deep or shallow, and don't require a bunch of monkeying around....I'm pretty impressed with them, and their longevity. I've had to replace one on my console that got ripped off running thru big waves (johnny mounted, doh), and was able to get a used one off the NCBF forum for $250.

I can't badmouth Lowrance or the rest, from lack of experience. But I've fished with some guys last year with new Lowrance color and gps and mapping that blew me away...solid solid technology and competitive advantage. Take that one step further, TMike showed me his side scanner Humminbird...shoots. Humminbird woke up and came up with something special there. I mean, NASA style technology, side scan, and get almost video quality output of structure that you don't even have to drive over...just to the side of...ridiculously good technology and competitive advantage IMO. Especially out here, where brush piling is the name of the spotted bass game....I mean, you could drive around and mark brush piles and rock formations, GPS mark them, store them, put to your software map of the lake, and setup correctly everytime to throw baits over top of the brush or in the brush.

Anyway, I wouldn't ignore PinPoint, just cuz its solid and reliable.