ranger56528

Newbe from Dent Mn or within 4.6 miles or so of Dent,on a lake anyway.

I just bought mine for 251.00 and the topo 2008 for 69.00...anyway the total was 321.00 to my door..... The cheepest Ive seen the Vista HCx around me was 299.00 and the topo was 89.00.......

The Windows Vista dosnt recognize the USB cable that came with the Meridian gps and I couldnt find any downloads..anyway I got the topo insted of cn being how I can buy a city map if need be.... I guess what I should do is buy a new Street map cd and download it from my friends laptop with windows xp,then I can leave the Maridian in the pickup and use the Garmin with topo out in the field.....DUH..... You folks have me thinking now witch isnt a good thing,well sometimes it gets me in trouble with the Wife if you know what I mean....

I just bought the Garmin eTrex Vista HCx with the topo chip,I couldnt pass up the price,321.00 for both anyway will this be good for all around use.I have a Maridian Gold GPS unit now but never got anything downloaded into it so it just sits around collecting dust(nice gps tho).... Anyway I wanted a GPS that I didnt have to download maps to because I have windows Vista and all the software say windows 98 or Xp and not Vista,I tried to download streetmap to the Maridian but it woudnt transfer to the gps......Thus the reason for buying a Garmin......I like just plugging in the chip. So is this a good GPS for all around use......