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<blockquote data-quote="victor" data-source="post: 162685" data-attributes="member: 3361"><p>Hi Eaglet,</p><p></p><p>Great Info, thank you for sharing. I have been looking at this unit for quite some time. Very intersted in getting one.</p><p></p><p>Can I ask where you purchased from and how much it cost?</p><p></p><p>I purchased the IQue M5 last year for the purpose of using it as a GPS and something to load my Ballistics program onto. </p><p></p><p>The M5 has GPS built in and works great for driving on the street. Gives you voice and arrows on screen for upcoming turns on hiway. Even worked pretty well in off-road situations. The map that comes with it is really pretty good. </p><p></p><p>However, I expected to load National Geographic Topo maps on it and use it to guide me to destinations, just like a regular GPS that displays an arrow and tells you what direction to go in. </p><p></p><p>However, it doesn't quite work like that. All though the M5 can use an San Disk memory card, the NG topo will not download to it. It can only be downloaded to the units own memory, which is not that large. So you can only download small portions of your topo maps (The greater the detail, the smaller map size you will see).</p><p>And what I don't like, is that it does not have a go to function in Topo map mode. It will show your location on the topo map and draw a series of dots to show your path on the map. That is ok for finding your way around as you know your position with relation to objects on the map, but I still like the arrow feature on a regular GPS much better. With my unit, I need to travel for some time, before enough dots appear on screen to confirm if I am going in the right direction or not.</p><p></p><p>As a ballistics program operating system it works just fine. I have Exbal on my unit.</p><p></p><p>The down side: Cost, unit = $500, NG Topo Maps = $89.00 per state, Battery life = 5 hours, Unit is not waterproof and much more fagile than your 60CSx. I bought a Otterbox protective case for it, but it is too bulky to carry that way. Luckily it is slim, so I carry it in my inside jacket pocket.</p><p></p><p>The perfect unit would be a GPS 60CSx with a processor that would run exbal, and be a range finder as well. </p><p></p><p>Are you listening Garmin, opportunity is knocking!</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your report,</p><p>Vic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="victor, post: 162685, member: 3361"] Hi Eaglet, Great Info, thank you for sharing. I have been looking at this unit for quite some time. Very intersted in getting one. Can I ask where you purchased from and how much it cost? I purchased the IQue M5 last year for the purpose of using it as a GPS and something to load my Ballistics program onto. The M5 has GPS built in and works great for driving on the street. Gives you voice and arrows on screen for upcoming turns on hiway. Even worked pretty well in off-road situations. The map that comes with it is really pretty good. However, I expected to load National Geographic Topo maps on it and use it to guide me to destinations, just like a regular GPS that displays an arrow and tells you what direction to go in. However, it doesn't quite work like that. All though the M5 can use an San Disk memory card, the NG topo will not download to it. It can only be downloaded to the units own memory, which is not that large. So you can only download small portions of your topo maps (The greater the detail, the smaller map size you will see). And what I don't like, is that it does not have a go to function in Topo map mode. It will show your location on the topo map and draw a series of dots to show your path on the map. That is ok for finding your way around as you know your position with relation to objects on the map, but I still like the arrow feature on a regular GPS much better. With my unit, I need to travel for some time, before enough dots appear on screen to confirm if I am going in the right direction or not. As a ballistics program operating system it works just fine. I have Exbal on my unit. The down side: Cost, unit = $500, NG Topo Maps = $89.00 per state, Battery life = 5 hours, Unit is not waterproof and much more fagile than your 60CSx. I bought a Otterbox protective case for it, but it is too bulky to carry that way. Luckily it is slim, so I carry it in my inside jacket pocket. The perfect unit would be a GPS 60CSx with a processor that would run exbal, and be a range finder as well. Are you listening Garmin, opportunity is knocking! Thanks for your report, Vic [/QUOTE]
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