At 03:06 PM 12/28/2006, alex wrote: >It is interesting that many online stores adverstise more expensive 60CSX >model as 60CS (which they don't even have, as it's been discontinued a while >ago). May be this is what confuses ebay byers, paying sometimes $300 for a >used 60CS, while for $340 they could get a new 60CSX (after the Garmin >rebate). Or it's just a Christmas shopping frenzy. So yesterday my wife was doing some net surfing and came across a site on geocaching. She thought it looked like a lot of fun and asked my about it. She said, "You've got a birthday coming up in a couple of weeks...and I remember you talking about getting a GPS awhile back". So now I'm looking at getting a new toy for my birthday. I'm also a bit torn about the 60C versus the CSX. It seems that the pluggable SD cards is a good way to switch maps but I guess I'm unclear about how switching maps works. I'm essentially looking at three different usages for the GPS. I'd like to use for street maps when traveling, topo maps when doing geocaching, and using a bluechart when paddling. Is it possible to load multiple maps (assuming the unit has enough memory) and switch maps using the unit? Do the removable SD cards provide *additional* memory such that I could have a street map in the unit and then plugin either a topo map or bluechart map? I don't really see a problem keeping all the maps I might need on a laptop and downloading what I need to the GPS when I need it but I wonder which method is more cost effective? It seems to me that I would need a blank SD card (at $50 a pop for a 32MB card) for each map type I want (probably a minimum of 3 cards) if I went with the X model. The prices I'm looking at are about $245 for a 60C or $299 for a CSX (the garmin $50 rebate expired Dec. 30). Any suggestions? John Fereira jaf30_at_cornell.edu Ithaca, NY *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 02 2007 - 04:18:21 PST
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