For anyone who has owned both 60CX/CSX and 65/65S

[Professor_Fate]

Greetings,

I found my GPSMAP 60CX the other day and put fresh batteries in it, and powered it on. I still had a 2012 version of City Navigator on there but shortly after I discovered openstreetmap and replaced it with that. The detail is unquestionably better!

The 60CX usually takes a couple minutes to acquire satellites and scrolling the map screen is generally slow. Any of you who have the 65 or 65s, does the processing power seem to be faster? Is there anything it does much better than the 60CX/60CSX ? I initially purchased the 60CX because I liked the fact that it uses the standard AA batteries so there wouldn't ever be a situation of being unable to find a proprietary battery. Just trying to see if it's worth upgrading to the 65/65s.

 

[Nuvi-Nebie]

Openstreetmaps are definitely more detailed than the ones supplied by Garmin but that does have it's down side, Garmin tailor their maps so that they require a certain amount of processing power from the CPU, a more detailed map will require more processing power and will slow down map drawing

The 65/65s can use exactly the same batteries as the 60CX, the only difference is that the 65/65s will also perform in-unit charging whereas the 60CX won't