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| Garmin 010-00422-00 GPSMAP 60CSx 2.6-Inch Mapping Handheld GPS | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $535.99
Buy New: $294.00
You Save: $241.99 (45%)
New (82) Used (2) Refurbished (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  377 reviews
Sales Rank: 85
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: 20
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 160x240
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 1.5 x 2.2 x 2.6
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Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00422-00
Model: 010-00422-00
UPC: 753759049126
EAN: 0753759049126
ASIN: B000CSOXTO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Nice unit. May 11, 2006
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Very sensitive reception. Excellent unit with a lot of functionality for business and recreation.
 Basemap Desparately Needs Updating May 8, 2006
28 out of 45 found this review helpful
I was disapointed that my new Garmin 60CS still has the old exit numbers for I-95 in its integrated basemap. The planning and migration to the new exit numbers has been in process for years. Yet Garmin has not taken the time to update the exit numbers for their newest GPS units. Garmin's response to my inquiry was "yes, the basemap is old" and "no, we aren't planning on updating it." At $500 a unit, I feel customers deserve an accurate basemap.
This unit has it all! May 4, 2006
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is my fourth handheld GPS (I have 6 total). My handhelds are an old first-run eTrex, an eTrex Vista, and a Magellan Meridian Platinum. The 60CSx is definately the best. The most important aspect of any GPS unit is the ability to pick up the satellites. The 60CSx does this without fail while hanging from a belt loop, while in deep woods, at the bottom of 500 foot ravines in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. My other units have to be held up overhead at full arms length and get only spotty reception at best. The Magellan is definately the best of the others but I do not like the size of it or the button locations or the software nearly as much as the Garmin 60. I can palm a basketball, yet the Magellin is too large for my hand to comfortably operate the buttons. The stability and reproducability of the 60CSx is excellent. Consider my return trip to the trailhead on a recent hike. At one point the 60CSx said I was about 150 feet off the earlier track. This seemed too much. I bushwacked over about 150 feet to find the trail and then realized that a cross country ski path intersected with the trail and I had not noticed it on the way in. In my humble opinion this is excellent performance. I purchased the MapSource software which has all the trails I will ever need for about $100. My only complaint is that top quality, alkaline, batteries only last about 10 hours, and not the 30 hours listed in the ad copy. I carry another set of batteries for a day hike. I am very happy with this purchase.
My 1st GPS and its Great! May 3, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I live in a Chicago suburb and travel on my insurance and financial planning appointments that somehow people constantly give the wrong directions, and Mapquest cant find!
I wanted a GPS that I could use for camping up in the UP of Michigan, go out on the ATV, and use in the car. Finally Garmin came out with this product that can do both well and I bought it.
Why? Because most hand helds have limited memory, which I did not want for traveling because you have to have a computer with you to keep downloading detailed street maps. The unit only comes with a general highway map. The other choice was to buy 2 units, one for the car and one for the outdoors. Not what I wanted to do!
This unit has expandable memory sticks with up to 256mb each that can hold detailed maps of several states. In addition, you can add the TOPO map for hiking and offroading. Just put it on a seperte memory stick if you don't want to delete the street maps on your other memory sticks. When you update the maps the old info is wiped off of the memory stick.
I have been using the unit for about 2 weeks now in the car, and it is awesome. Very accurate, and very, very fast, too.
It can find satellites and work in my basement! It calculates routes in a matter of 3-5 seconds or so for a 350 mile trip. It recalculates a route when you miss a turn in about 2 seconds.
Amazing!
Nice Unit, Bad Support April 10, 2006
80 out of 96 found this review helpful
The review is more for how well Garmin handles/supports their product..
E-mailed their tech support a few days ago because my new 60CSX isn't indicating a "D" fix (WAAS)or any signal from a PRN above 30. Got this in reply:
"I'll be glad to help. The new SiRF units are not really capible of obtaining a WAAS fix at this time. Alone, the units can get down to 6-7 feet of accuracy without WAAS, and according to engineers, even with WAAS the correction is less than 6 inches at best. At this time, I am not sure if they will go though the effort to make the units work with WAAS or not. Most likely the option will be dropped with future updates because of the lack of
benefit."
Umm right.. First of all the box indicates that it's WAAS enabled, the website says it's WAAS enabled, and there are gobs of other users on the Groundspeak forums who are getting DGPS fixes and much better EPE's than I am. My older units are outperforming circles around this thing. It has some of the worst positional drift that I've seen in a HH GPSr. (sitting on a chair in my backyard for 30 minutes this afternoon, the trip odometer logged .6 miles) As such, I've had it for a couple of weeks and consider it not much more than a pretty paper weight.
The unit has excellent TTFF, is great to look at/use in any condition. But having been sold on a WAAS unit only to have a tech rep tell me that the packaging doesn't match the product gets me a little riled up.
Truth in advertising anyone? I'm gunna confirm this issue with others at Garmin, and if what the rep told me winds up being true, I'm going to pursue it with the FTC....
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