Re: garin 60 series rebates and comparison to the 76csx

miso@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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I'm with Dominic on the buttons on top. I like the more natural balance in the hand and never having to shift my grip to reach the lower buttons as I did with the Meridians I used to use.


> 76 and noticed two things. The 76CSX has a 256 color transflective
> TFT, while the 60CSx has 256 level color TFT. Is the display very
> different?

There is no difference in the 60 and 76 "x" series displays. Garmin just used two different terminologies to describe the same display. They also got the sizes slightly different by measuring part of the surrounds on 76Cx/76CSx, the pixel count on the visible area is the same on both.

Don't take Garmin's web pages too literally, they are known to be prone to errors. Not even they can figure it all out and keep track of their product line.

> Also, the 76CSX can use a 128M SD, while the 60CSx can
> support 64M. The memory limitation seems pretty dumb to me, unless
> they try to limit the memory size so that when Garmin supplies 24k
> topo maps (everywhere, not just US parks), the maps won't fit in the
> memory space.

The 64mb and 128mb are the sizes of cards that come with them, it is not a limitation. Any Garmin that uses microSD card will use 2 GB cards now, I would not be surprised to see that figure go up if they can amend the software to handle the SDHC cards. Of course, they won't do that until they start selling mapping products on SDHC or Garmin branded SDHC cards.

The reason that the 76Cx/76CSx come with a larger microSD card is that the people that purchase those are more astute than the people that buy the 60Cx/60CSx. They are more likely, for that reason, to make intelligent use of the extra memory. Did I mention that I have the 76Cx?

If the last statement passes without notice for its humorous intent, you are not reading for content. :>)

I saw the link in this usenet group
regarding combining maps, which is something I need to do to at least
fill it with the western US CDROM.

If you are talking about U.S. Topo - West, that has too many maps (also called segments) in it to be uploaded to a single gmapsupp.img file. You can only upload 2025 maps to one file. That is a pretty obscure limitation but Garmin tech support has confirmed it numerous times.

Somewhere on the net is a website where you enter rough coordinates,
and it spits out calibrated locations. If anyone has that handy, let
me know. Don't go googling on my account though....

I have the book mark right here: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/

The National Geodetic Survey datasheets are probably what you are interested in.

Oh yeah, I can operate a blackberry one handed. Keyboard at the bottom
of course. ;-)

I'd need a longer thumb with a smaller "ball" on it. I'm still using a Nokia 6230. If that ever craps out I may consider buying another model... :>)

Jack

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