My old lowrance x75 (i said old) is loosing pixels and it isn't good by today's standards anyway.

Friend has a 9 " lowrance elite, it's really nice - but over 2 grand and he has no idea how to use most of its features.

Gps plotting looks cool, but I don't know how much its needed - I'm not a pro  and I'm not hitting a new unknown lake every week.

I would like something that is about a 7" screen, can find fish in 150' either on bottom or suspended.  

Honestly I don't know how much it will get used, I'd rather be on a river fly fishing than sitting in a boat trolling for kokanee or jigging for whitefish.  Not a lot of bass lakes around here, the bucket biologists are planting walleye and northerns everywhere but I'm not real interested in either.

Lowrance Hook 7 or Humminbird Helix 7.  I'd honestly get the most loaded graph you can for your budget.  GPS, down imaging, & side imaging will make you a better fishermen.

Until you use livescope, mega live, etc. then you'll never want to fish with a basic graph again.  

I have swapped my boat to garmin.  Ive been extremely happy and the mapping is great.  I always ran Navionics on my birds, but for the money I think Garmin offers a great product.  You will use the mapping and SV/SI more than you think, once you have it.

I've been looking at the hook 7" - there are several different models - splitshot, tripleshot, gps, gps plotting, etc.  I've seen some complaints that you can't upload maps to some of them, but you can to others.

Walmart has the Lowrance Hook2 7x split shot on sale for $99

What you seek.  I love mine.  https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/garmin-echomap-uhd-93sv-fishfinderchartplotter-combo

Lowrance just lowered prices, especially on the Live series.

I just orders an HDS-Live 12" to go with my 7".  Well worth the investment.

I know this is an old thread but the HDS-Live 9" is over half off at Bass Pro for $999.

That's because Lowrance has just announced the follow on Pro model.