As a newbie I purchased the Garmin etrex Legend about a week ago and am very happy with it. The PC connection is almost mandatory for geocaching as I entered the first few manually before putting the effort into finding software to quickly and easily load coordinates to the GPSr. Using Google Earth in conjunction with GSAK I am able to find caches in areas that I know I will frequent and upload in no time. My only regret is I didn't spend the extra $ for the color screen. FYI: eBay is a good place to compare units and prices.