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Mercury Direct

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  1. I just bought my 60CSx for $331 at the Nerds.net using the $10 off Google Checkout option. After a lot of research it's the lowest price I've seen. Mark
  2. Has anyone tried the mounts that make use of your car's drink holder? These would "leave no trace" of the presence of a GPS when you removed them. I've been thinking of trying one out but the RAM mount system utilizes a soda can and that seems a little rigged for a mount system. Are there any other good cup holder mounts out there? Mark
  3. I'd cast my vote for National Geographic Topo. I've been using it with my 60CSx and it's way ahead of anything else out there for a Mac right now. It features GPX upload and download as well as interfacing very nicely with my 60CSx for track, route and waypoint upload/download. If you get the state version you'll have 1:24,000 topos of your state with a workable interface. That's much better than the 1:100,000 scale topo maps you'd be working with in the Garmin MapSource software. Only downside is the price at about $80 per state. But if like me you do 90% of your exploring in one state I'd say it's completely worth it...at least until Garmin FINALLY comes through with OS X support. Mark
  4. I just got my 60CSx after spending a lot of time looking for the lowest web price. You can find the Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx for $329 at the Nerds.net. You can also get the Mapsource US Topo software for $72 from the same site, making your total investment just $400. Compare that to the $630 suggested retail for these items. If you get your GPSr and find that you don't enjoy geocaching you won't lose much if you resell since you paid so much less than full retail and these units have a good resale value.
  5. With MacGPSPro I would think the more useful feature would be to use the available free 1:24000 USGS topo maps to map your route with waypoint and/or route information before heading out. That way you have full benefit of the 4x higher resolution of these maps compared to the 1:100000 MapSource maps on the GPSr. Otherwise you'll never see a detailed map like that of your geocaching adventures. Of course you can also print out the 1:24000 maps to take along for backup when out caching. Let's just hope Garmin comes through with their Mac support in Q1 of this year as they promised (again).
  6. I just posted about this topic in this thread. I haven't had a chance to us MacGPS Pro with my GPSr yet but they do offer a 30 day money back guarantee even if they don't have a trial version available. It makes me cringe to think of the Dark Side's logo disgracing my beautiful Mac screen so I wanted to avoid Virtual PC or any other way of booting Windoze on my machine. From my research it sounds like I may have a working solution. Hope it helps you too, one newb to another
  7. I'm a Mac user and just ordered a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx to use with it. So obviously I have no real life experience. But I have spent probably 20 hours researching Mac/GPS solutions and there are a couple things that come to mind that nobody else has mentioned yet that might help. The first is that the maps from Garmin and something like Google Earth are different animals. The MapSource maps from Garmin are VECTOR based and can only be used on the GPSr. Something like National Geographic Topo! or MacGPS Pro are RASTER based and are used on your Mac to research routes before you go and to display track data from your GPS after an outing. So you really need to have both the Garmin MapSource for your GPS and another program for your Mac if you want to get the most out of your setup. I happen to already have the National Geographic Topo! for Montana where I live and from my research it apparently works very well with Mac/GPSr. Since I don't want to purchase any more $80 state maps I also chose to try MacGPS Pro which allows you to use free USGS and other topo maps available online. It has a LOT of great reviews from casual and professional GPSr users. As far as the MapSource maps for your GPSr, I found the USA version for $72 and change at The Nerds.net. Even though I have to use a friend's PC to load it on my 2GB microSD card it beats shelling out over and over again for different sections of the US on preloaded microSD cards IMHO. As I said, this is all information I've put together from lots of research and no practical experience so I won't be offended if anyone contradicts me or modifies this info. Just thought I'd jump in as a well-researched Mac user
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