I'm leaning more towards the 60CS. I keep saying I'm going to save the $$ up to buy it and my husband keeps telling me to buy it on the joit credit card and pay it back so I can start enjoying it sooner. I'm not in any big hurry to have PDA abilities. Out of curiosity how far in does the 60CS zoom (I didn't see it mentioned on the Garmin webpage)? I know someone said being designed more for street routing that the IQue only goes to 120 feet. My Vista zooms in to a 20 foot scale which seems much nicer than my husbands etrex that had no maps and only zooms to 200 scale. BottomFeeder <BottomFeeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: - The iQUE may well be a fine device, but I'm generally inclined to look askance at first generation 'gadgets'.....especially with these 'convergence' gadgets (Camera/phone combos, pda/phone combos, mp3/camera/phone combos, etc.....). I'm just inclined to think the general public is doing a lot of the R&D for some of these things, and paying for the 'privilege' of being a beta tester. And it all too frequently seems to be the 2nd or 3rd generation of such devices before they're 'da bomb'...assuming the 1st gen sells well enough to have a 2nd or 3rd gen. There's at least one PocketPC based equivalent of the iQUE on the market now as well, and I'd be equally skeptical of that....probably more so because the gps portion isn't from a 'name' company like Garmin. Now, if you wanted (or had a need for) a pda anyway, then picking up a GPS module to plug into the pda might be worth investigating. I'm not sure what all is available on the Palm platform these days in that sense, but there is quite a number of options on the PPC platform. -= Russ =- (BottomFeeder) -----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sara Carter Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 19:29 To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: New Garmin Units Rich I was hoping for lots of replies, that's why I asked it here. I don't have a PDA right now and while it would be nice to go paperless eventually I'm not in a super big hurry for it. The IQue is also palm OS and most of the people that I've talked to tend to feel the PocketPC is easier to use (I know some here disagree). And you're probably right about breaking it knocking out both parts, probably not a great thought with a 4 year old monster (granted she doesn't cache with me often.) GC-RGS wrote: Sara, Not owning either it's hard to say for sure but here's my take. The IQ is an expensive PDA and GPS in one ($550) but I hear battery life is very short, like several hours. Also, if you'd break it, that would probably knock out both features. Where as if you already own a PDA, you can save some $$'s buying just the GPS. If you need a PDA too, it leaves you with lot's of options such as PPC or Palm, wireless or bluetooth, $100 to $600 cost range, etc. Still, you need to decide if you want to carry just one gadget or 2. I'm sure you'll get LOT'S of replies on this one. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Sara Carter To: stlgeocache Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: [GeoStL] New Garmin Units IQue vs. 60CS Which is better? The IQue alone or a 60CS and a seperate PDA? I'm in the process of selling a couple things I don't need (not geocaching related stuff) and saving some money and thinking about upgrading from my Etrex Vista. I'd like to here the thoughts of others before doing anything since both are not cheap investments. Sara **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field