The support for the 1197 is so much better. Whether from the factory or even online. The Humminbird PC cannot be matched and really does some amazing things, and with Linda not being at Lowrance anymore, the originally long repair times, are really going to get bad, the service is realy going to go downhill even more. I live 40 miles from Navico(Lowrance) and after seeing how they operate, I will always use Humminbird from now on. And yes the cases on the HDS7, and HDS10s have been known to leak water. Just my 2 cents.