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Thanks to all of you for the great advice (and thanks Neo Geo for the link to GPS Geek - great prices!). Well, I was considering just keeping the yellow and buying the cable, and then upgrading later, but decided just to have one more look at the Legend on Amazon just be sure. It wasn't showing the price, so I added to my cart, and it was only $135! Since this was approximately the price I was going to pay for the yellow and the cable total (not considering the cables on gpsgeek), this seemed like a great deal. Especially since I've only seen the Legend for around $170 everywhere else. To make it even sweeter, Amazon is giving a $15 coupon towards a future purchase, so I added a case for the unit, and also had to add a cheap battery charger (just to get it over the required $150). So basically, I am getting the Legend at what seems like a great price, and the case is virtually free. Of course, since I am new to this, maybe this deal isn't as good as I think it is, but from all the other sites where I've seen the Legend for sale, it sure seemed like a good deal to me. What do you all think? Oh, and Neo Geo, thanks for the warning about caching in NYC. I had never considered buying a GPS before, since I figured, what good would it do in NYC?, but when I saw all the caches listed on the site for the city and the boroughs, it seemed like there is a pretty active community in this area. I guess if I have to, I will just focus on the caches not directly in the city.

Hi all. I am brand new to GPS and geocaching. I was sort of pushed into it because my dad just gave my wife and I the eTrex yellow for xmas. Well, I like to research the heck out of electronics purchases, and so I immediately began scouring around the web for reviews to make sure it was a decent GPS (which is why I usually like to buy my own electronics!). I found the geocaching.com link on a review on the circuitcity web site, and, well, here I am. Geocaching sounds like a lot of fun, and my wife and I are both looking forward to trying it out (we live in NYC and don't have a car, so for now that will be the main use of the GPS). I have somehow forced myself not to open the package yet until I make sure it is the best one for us, as beginners. Apologies if the questions below have been answered in previous threads...I did do a search, but then I began reading lots and lots of other threads, and, well, it's a bit overwhelming and time-consuming, and since I have to return this unit soon if I'm going to, I figured I would go ahead and post. Now that my long-winded introduction is over, let me get started... 1. One thing I definitely want to do is hook up my gps to my PC. I was going to buy the combo serial/lighter adapter cord from Amazon since it is cheaper than most places are charging for just one or the other. However, then I noticed the Venture will come out to around the same price, and it includes 1mb of memory. Do you think that it is more wise to just return the yellow one and get the Venture? 2. Regarding the memory on the Venture, I'm a little hazy on how the memory works. The Venture has 1mb of memory, and the yellow has no extra memory, but waypoints can still be loaded on the Yellow, right? Does that mean that the 1mb is additional memory just for full maps? OK, that's all for now. I have other questions about connecting the gps to my Palm T3, but I will save those until later (I'd better settle on a unit first!). Oh, and I know the Legend is another option, and it seems like a much better option. I am not opposed to spending the extra (since the cost of the Yellow can be taken out of what I have to spend, since it was a gift) but I am also hesitant to spend that much more on it when I have never done any of this before, and have not decided that I for sure like it. If there are reasons why I should spend the extra, then I will. Overall, though, I must say that I am tempted to keep the Yellow, just because IMHO it looks (physically, not in specs) the best out of all of them. I love the fact that I could find it anywhere, whether dropped in the woods or buried under a pile of my junk! Thanks in advance for any help!!!