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The Legend and Vista are basicaly the same unit except the Vista holds 24 MB (16MB more) than the legend. This is very useful in the ability of downloading vast numbers of Topo maps into the unit. My suggestion is take the legend back and upgrade to the Vista about 50-75 dollars more, but worth it, especially on those long trips, airline flights etc. I can download all of northern california using MapSource (A Garmin software Product)

Garmin continually upgrades their software versions, and almost all garmin models have a very current version download from their website at WWW.garmin.com after opening website click on software downloads (left side of web page). Be careful to ONLY ONLY ONLY download the version for your GPS unit. I bought my Vista in March of 2001, a week after they first came out, and have been upgading it every time a newer version was released. I remember they did have a bug, in that it caused a shutdown after a few minutes. In the Vista, if you loose sat recept a menu pops up asking if you want to use the unit without sat. recept. If you upgrade you will receive many new goodies such as Area calculator, Calculator and jumpmaster(for crazy skydivers) and more!