I’ve been using my new 60 CSx for about 3 weeks now. The first caveat is that I have not owned a previous model in this series, and the second is that I have not played with many other cachers’ receivers.

That said, I have used the word “sexy”, frequently in earshot of others when describing it. Uncle_Fun has posted some logs with glowing recommendations as well.

I’ll describe what I’m seeing in the field and you can take it for what you will. In the car moving, first satellite acquire of the day, seems only a bit faster. I can’t quite quantify it. But after turning it off, every subsequent acquisition is sub 2-3 seconds. I’ve regularly had it on indoors and maintained a lock under 25 feet accuracy. My average seems to be 17-21 feet outdoors. Better, but not earth-shattering. Haven’t had it under heavy foliage yet(like just about everyone else in Wisconsin). I did maintain lock under heavy pines while others were losing, but haven’t seen many caches with dense pines in the last few weeks either.

Memory with the supplied chip holds enough to cover all of Wisconsin, all of Chicagoland and room for a bit more. Upload with USB (my old unit had serial) is under 3 seconds for the 500 or so waypoints I load weekly.

As for turn-by-turn, if I miss a turn, recalculation is almost instantaneous. Scrolling is faster from what I’ve been told.

My only complaint has been the tendency to walk past the cache and then come back. I’ve always heard other people talk about this, but didn’t experience it much with our first barebones unit (Garmin Geko 301).

I’d be interested to hear from people who HAVE had both.

I’ve pulled down somewhere in the area of 150 caches since it arrived, and my overall impression is extremely favorable.

The workaround for GSAK is pretty easy. You export the waypoints to the Mapsource Trip and Waypoint Manager(comes with the unit) and then download it from there to the GPSr. Adds one step with very little hassle. I was a bit apprehensive too, but GSAK has a nice thread on their internal forum that explained it all.

Trip and Waypoint is packaged with the unit, and City Navigator with the street maps and turn-by-turn is 120.00(I think) extra. Not sure on backwards compatibility. Yeah, kinda’ hidden costs, as my 500.00 unit was 700.00 by the time I added software, a power adapter and AA charger.

I always read that the legend C and the vista C got better reception than the 60c/60cs. I have always been able to get and hold a lock inside biuldings, even down to 10ft accuracy.
The rubber came loose off my legend C so I sent it in for repairs, garmin sent me a different unit and this one seems just as good for reception.
of course since the new X models came out things have changed. only the 60/76X models get the sirfIII chip, so these should be much better than the legendCX and the vistaCX.

I guess a better indoor test would be to hold the unit improperly, if I don’t have the legendC screen up, I will loose signal. Maybe a 60/76X tested indoors held upside down