I've had mine for several years, and after reading about the newer Colorado and Oregon units, I would still go with the 60CSx. The screen is more readable in sunlight than the newer units, despite their bigger screen size, and it still has a more accurate antenna/receiver system. It's the best handheld for hiking because of its accuracy and topo maps, and a pretty good navigator in the car as well, so it highly versatile if you need a unit for both purposes. I particularly love the fact that it can save "infinitely" long tracks as GPX files in its flash memory (organized by date), long after its 10,000-point active track log is full.
In addition to being able to use it now with the Mac, another great thing that has happened more recently, is that you don't have to go to Garmin to get downloadable topo maps. For example detailed 7.5'-scale New England topo maps are available at [.....]and they're free. You still need a PC to install the maps, but then you can transfer them to your Mac for use with Garmin's software.
I do have some annoyances, all of them related to use in the car:
1. Zooming out to get a big picture of where you are, covering an area bigger than about 20 miles across, can be very tedious due to slow redraw, and going beyond that is near-useless. This is not an issue when hiking or boating, but in a car it means you still need road maps if you want to get the really big picture. You'll tear your hair out trying to viewing a spot a few hundred miles from where you are now by zooming and panning. However, if you know the city or other point of interest, you can use the Find function to get there quickly.
2. Small roads disappear when you zoom out a certain amount, which makes sense except when those are the only roads around. In sparsely populated areas, this can make getting your bearings difficult. To be fair, I haven't found any of the dashboard GPSes do any better in this regard. Even online mapping services have this flaw.
3. The search feature to find something generic (a restaurant, gas station, etc.) gives you a list based on distance from where you are, not distance from the route in the direction you are traveling. Because of this I've found that feature difficult to use unless I know the name of a specific place I'm going to.Buy Cheap Garmin GPS 60CSx Lowest Price, Order Now! [Click Here!]
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