what to buy for europe

Hi newbie looking for help here.

I'm looking to get a dedicated GPS system that works out of the box and provides continious street level detail and pre-installed mapping of UK and Ireland and France. The main purpose is for a 3 week touring holiday to south of france in 2 weeks so I'm in a bit of a rush. I'm not really interested in a PDA and in activating and loading maps from consoles onto sd cards etc. I was leaning towards the mitac mio 269 but cant say I'm enthralled by the scant reviews I've read on the web. I do like the look of Destinator PN though but haven't seen it packaged with any hardware yet. Also I'm from N. Ireland - I understand that outside of Belfast the mapping is dire so whatever software works best here would have to be a consideration. Any urgent assistance in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated

[Charlie]

Welcome to our forums.
If you're looking for a no fuss solution have you considered Wayfinder which runs on a mobile phone? All you the user has to do is install the program onto a compatible phone and all the map data is kept on the Wayfinder servers. See www.wayfinder.com for some detailed info.

Not really what I'm after Charlie. At the minute its the Navman 650(very expensive!) or the Mio 269. I want drive away full european mapping and I need it soon!