Garmin GPS - Re: GPSMAP 76CSx being sold cheaper than 60CSx

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Re: GPSMAP 76CSx being sold cheaper than 60CSx

miso@sushi.com

2007-04-16, 3:33 pm

On Apr 16, 5:12 am, Jack Erbes <jacker...@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Sam wrote:
>
> It was that $100 rebate last year that sealed my decision between buying
> the 60Cx or 76Cx. My 76Cx cost me $309 with shipping and the rebate
> check showed up about 6 weeks later.
>
> The 76Cx also came with a microSD card that, at 128 MB, was slightly
> less useless than the 64 MB card supplied with the 60 series.
>
> I suspected at the time that maybe Garmin was going to discontinue the
> 76 series and that they were closing them out but that has not happened.
>
> After some years of using Magellan Meridian GPSR's with the 60 series
> shape and feel, I have actually come to like the 76's shape, display,
> and button location better. The thing comes to use in my left hand more
> naturally and my thumb never blocks the display. Also, the unit is more
> easily propped up against things and will stand that way better.
>
> I don't change the memory card very often any more but in the early
> stages, when I was playing with it a lot more, the 76's card location
> made it much faster and easier in use. I've swapped the card without
> shutting the GPS off a number of times now, more by error than intent,
> and the GPS has handled that fine.
>
> I love my 76Cx, it is the Best GPS Receiver in the World! So if you
> will confine your remarks about the "ugly and fragile" 76Cx I won't tell
> you what I think of your overweight and homely daughter! :> )
>
> Jack
>
> --
> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

I like the control to be beneath the display. This way your hand(s)
doesn't (don't) block the screen while operating it.

I was just froogling the 60csx a few days ago. It it down to $330 or
so. If the compass was 3D, I'd probably buy one and keep my emap as a
spare.

Fred Hiltz

2007-04-16, 3:33 pm

miso@sushi.com wrote:
& #91;snip]
> I was just froogling the 60csx a few days ago. It it down to
> $330 or so. If the compass was 3D, I'd probably buy one and
> keep my emap as a spare.

Don't let that stop you. For $6.95 you can buy a keychain magnetic
compass that is 3D, just as accurate as the one in the 60CSx, and
far more reliable. Turn off the Garmin compass and enjoy longer
battery times.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

Klatch

2007-04-16, 3:33 pm

<miso@sushi.com> wrote in message
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> I like the control to be beneath the display. This way your hand(s)
> doesn't (don't) block the screen while operating it.<snip>

When I read this comment on various forums, I have to wonder if the 60
series owner has actually used a 76 series. If you operate the unit with
the thumb, the thumb is above the display and blocks nothing. I've used
both, and like both.

Steve Calvin

2007-04-16, 3:33 pm

Klatch wrote:
> <miso@sushi.com> wrote in message
> news:1176750905.626567.31310@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> When I read this comment on various forums, I have to wonder if the 60
> series owner has actually used a 76 series. If you operate the unit with
> the thumb, the thumb is above the display and blocks nothing. I've used
> both, and like both.
>
>
It's probably me being spastic or something but I just
couldn't hold and operate the 60 in one hand.

--
Steve
http://adirondackoutdoors.forumcircle.com

Klatch

2007-04-16, 10:33 pm

"Steve Calvin" <calvins@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:KRQUh.50$Ld4.34@newsfe12.lga...
> Klatch wrote:
> It's probably me being spastic or something but I just couldn't hold and
> operate the 60 in one hand.
>
> --
> Steve
> http://adirondackoutdoors.forumcircle.com
I agree, the 60 is harder to operate with one hand because so much of the
unit sticks up above the hand which is holding it.

Jack Erbes

2007-04-17, 7:33 am

miso@sushi.com wrote:

<snip>
> I like the control to be beneath the display. This way your hand(s)
> doesn't (don't) block the screen while operating it.
>
> I was just froogling the 60csx a few days ago. It it down to $330 or
> so. If the compass was 3D, I'd probably buy one and keep my emap as a
> spare.

I've heard that mentioned before but I don't think that is a problem
anyone has actually experienced. It is only something they think they
would experience.

I take a little discomfort from anyone that owns neither and finds one
or the other clearly better or deficient. It is irrational.

I have a 76Cx, don't have 60Cx, but have used Magellan Meridians with a
similar shape and button location a lot.

If you take the 76Cx/CSx with the weight or mass comfortably centered in
you hand, your thumb is not over the display. I can also reach up and
operate the buttons and cursor pad with the thumb of the hand that is
holding it and still not block the display.

When I hold the GPS in my left hand and use my right index finger on the
buttons and cursor pad, with the natural curl of the finger and angle of
the hand, nothing blocks the screen.

For one handed use, I am maintaining a better grip on the 76 style case
in use than I did on a GPS with the keys at the bottom. I don't have to
shift the GPS upward from a natural grip and reach down to press keys
with my thumb tip.

It is not a big difference in either case. The major thing I like
better about the rectangular case is that it lays flat, will not roll,
and props up straight. If leaned back against something it stays there
better.

I have a Gilsson neoprene case on my 76Cx most of the time and that both
improves my grip and provides protection for the case and the display
without changing the shape.

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

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