Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx GPS

Great GPS

Strengths: Great accuracy; easy to use; electronic compass; great battery life

Weakness: Maps cost too much

Great GPS. Picks up satellites real quick and is very accurate. I use it for Geocaching and love the ablity to upload caches right from the website. Saves a ton of time. The electrinoc compass is nice when caching. You can stand still and it finds north for you. So far the only flaws has to be the price of the optional maps. Way too expensive. I'm impressed with the battery life of the two AA's....

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GPSmap 60Csx

Strengths: Satellite aquisition speed in Remote Upper Michigan

Weakness: Belt clip is flimsey - falls off too easily

I bought this unit for deer hunting this year in Upper Michigan - November 2007. Excellent aquisition speed, super tracking and waypoint ease, good button use with one hand while walking in the woods.Threw my old Magellen away since it just could not pick up the sats.Great for hunting in remote areas where orientation loss can occur. Great electronic compass

Excellent GPS: Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx

Strengths: In color, multiple satellites used for pinpoint accuracy, durable body, waterproof, unit is user friendly. I picked this unit up without reading instructions and was able to figure out how it works.

Weakness: You have to buy street maps separately at a hefty price.

I would recommend this product hands down. The accuracy of the unit is unbelievable. It has found every mark I have plotted without failure. Even though the unit and accessories are a bit pricey, I would buy it again or another if needed. This unit is being used mostly for Geocaching and it is exceptional.

Garmin Map 60CSx

Strengths: Great GPS, good reception, sturdy design, lots of nice features, is fairly configurable, comes with a pretty good world map set, is pretty much self documenting and tends to do what you want.

Weakness: Price, maybe compute power, documentation, Points Of Interest , registration with the street guide and general information on the unit.

Finding one of these units is hard. I found one in stock in a high-end marine shop that specialized in navigation equipment. It was expensive and they did not have the maps, which they promised would be direct shipped in a week or two (street guide took 4 months and 6 months later I am still waiting for the marine guide). Also, the shop had no idea what this unit was capable of. I made a cross...

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GPSMAP 60CSx

Strengths: Size, ruggedness, ability to get a strong signal

Weakness: Screen is difficult to read when mounted on a dashboard or motorcycle handlebar (I've done both for long roadtrips)

This is a great unit for hiking. I've used it all over the Cascade Mountains in western Washington, and don't have any complaints. I've also mounted it on my dashboard and motorcycle handlebar for roadtrips, and it's a little more difficult to use. The screen is difficult to read so I end up pulling over sometimes, especially on my bike, so I can really understand what it's trying to tell me....

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Excellent unit -- does just about everything

Strengths: Don't exactly know where to start

Weakness: only one I can think of is that you cannot sort your poi's into categories like on my ex-magellan Explorist 400

I have had both an Explorist 400 and this unit. This unit beats the Explorist 400 hands down. There are some features that this unit has that the Explorist 400 does not, but with the things that they have in common, this is the better unit (but you have to pay for it). This is probably where the Explorist will be in another year or two. Here are a few things that I like about this unit: 2 double...

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GPSMAP60CXS

Strengths: very impressive over the e-trex vista. It locks on satellites quickly. Takes a couple days to explore all the features but easy to use once you know the layout. I would highly recommend this gps.

Weakness: High Priced but get get what you pay for

Very good gps. I would feel comfortable using it for hunting, ATV exploring or on the road. Plenty of features. My rating is 5 star. Be sure to practice with it before needing to use it. Lots of page and setup options.

60CSx GPS

Strengths: Lighweight, water resistant, intuitive to use, fast satellite reception, decent screen size.

Weakness: Does not come with a city or topo CD, just some major roads. You have to spend more $ to get it to be useful for driving or hiking. Buttons can be a little creaky.

Despite Garmins high price I like this little hand held. It's rugged and does not appear to eat up batteries. I like the functionality but I was disappointed that for that high price the package did not include a city map or maybe even a discount coupon for topo or water maps. If only they could make an all in one gps, use it in the car with voice and then hit the trail.

Great handheld unit packed with features

Strengths: Great handheld unit packed with features. Very good reception inside and out. Really like the ability to add maps using microSD card.

Weakness: Expensive since you really need the Mapsource City Navigator NA software to get the full use (be sure to use the manufacturer $50 rebate); recommend cigarette charge if you are using in your car;

I'm very impressed with the capabilities of this handheld unit; I intend to take it with me everywhere I travel so I can use the street map and navigating features; I tried using it in my car using batteries. I'm using NiMH recharable batteries yet less then 45 minutes of tracking my drive, the batteries went out. Recommend a charger when used in your car. I will take it while skiing. With the...

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GPS Delivers Great Sensitivity and Geocaching Tools

Strengths: Excellent GPS signal Sensitivity, Quick to Lock-On, Good User Interface, PC uploads/downloads a breeze

Weakness: Paging between functions can get confusing, Switching between On-Road/Off Road can get buried in drill downs

Very impressed...strongly recommended...pulled it out of the box and got a lock inside the apartment in about 1 minute...outside and after subsequent power cycles lock-on occurred in seconds...break-locks very rare even in some very heavily wooded areas. Uploaded the Map Source interface on the PC and we were immediately in business for geocaching with uploading caches and downloading tracks....

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