>The benefit however is it's a more modern GPS chipset, to it
>locks on cold start much faster then my "few year old" GPS,
>and also can recover from dropouts MUCH faster.

This seems to be a benefit of having many more parallel channels in the 
receiver. More channels allows it to try so many more satellite combinations 
in parallel, so it finds them faster. 

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