I am in a real quandry here. I am going to get a GPS unit (eventually). ...but I operate on a MAC platform. I am told that almost all GPS units need a PC platform. Is this right? What GPS units are possible choices?

Morris,

Merry Christmas to all.

Thanks Craig,

Currently have a MAC OXS, thinking of a new computer and wanted to stick with this platform.

Morris

It is a tossup between the Garmin and the Magellen. I have no particular brand loyality at this point, just want the one that will work for me. Would like to have topo and map capabilities, not necessarily on top of each other, perhaps I am not familiar enough with the units (read:not at all). If there were anyone that was going to upgrade theirs, the old one would be for sale. I will check with Overstock. The units I see in the papers for the sales are, it seems, to be for city driving. I could probably get that through my Verizon phone.

Morris

Morris,

Have a look at the Garmin 60CSx and Garmin 276.  A lot of us have the 60CSx, and it works well with topo maps, street maps, driving directions, mac/windows compatibility, good GPS (SIRF III chipset), color screen, small enough for backpacking, and rugged.

The 276C is nice, but it doesn't have the good GPS (Sirf II instead of Sirf III chipset)

Craig