GPSProfile.Com Handheld GPS Navigators

I have been involved with aircraft and avionics for many years. It just so happend that right when i got involved with avionics the latest and greatest were the new “handheld aviation gps’s”. One of the things many people have problems with the unit is how to operate them.
Many pilots say that “the same button does a million different things, its too confusing!” Of those people many think that its crazy not to have a touch screen as the user interface rather than a bunch of buttons that seemly do some many different things.

My question to you is: Does a touch screen gps seem more of a advantage or a disadvantage and for that matter does a touch screen anything belong in a Aircraft?
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Due to national budget cuts, Nationwide Differential GPS maybe be no longer available! According to GPSWorld, National Differential GPS (NDGPS) is endangered and not offered anymore. Read more here! Dont worry all your handheld Gps’s will still work!