Airmagnet Planning Software vs. Traditional Survey with AP

Greetings all - would like someone to share their experiences; Our company is considering some new purchases with regards to survey kits.  It has been suggested that we do not need a Survey AP for our kits, since Airmagnet planning software should tell us everything we need to know. Needless today, I am skeptical about depending soley on a predictive software to determine this.   Anyone have any thoughts or experiences they wish to share?  Thanks in advance   (note, we will be using this for both 802.11a for voice, as well as 802.11b/g surveying)

I have both Air Magnet and Ekahau. My biggest complaint about Ekahau is that I have to start a survey to see the AP names in the area that I am in. Air Magnet allows me to stand in one spot and view the visible AP's by name, Ekahau is only by MAC address. The Adroid version of the Ekahau only displays AP's by MAC. When there are 150 AP's in the building, I have no idea what AP the software is seeing.
Due to Ekahau only showing me MAC addresses, Unless I'm doing a survey, I find the software to be extremely difficult to be usefull. When looking for a single AP, I have to go lookup the MAC address before I can figure out the signle strength, I hat this. I do like the USB card.
The problem I have with Air Magnet is that the special card does not fit in my new laptop. I'm stuck with lugging around some old laptop just to use Air Magnet. I do have the option to spend more money to buy different cards.
You have to put a real AP up to do the survey. If you don't, you will be back onsite moving them when people complain of coverage issues.
Scape

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    Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2658. Device is working properly.
    Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2659. Device is working properly.
    Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265A. Device is working properly.
    Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265B. Device is working properly.
    Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 265C. Device is working properly.
    FireWire (IEEE 1394) Host Controllers:
    OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller. Device is working properly.
    Most Recent Device Not Currently Connected:
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    Serial Number: 7K7415ZVYXX

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