I am sure many of you have faced this question before, should I upgrade my old Garmin hand held GPS or not. Aside from people that just got to have the latest gadget, is it worth spending extra $$$ and get the new thing. In the end, we are not talking about few dollars - new 62sct is not cheap, even without build in maps (62sc or 62s) its around $400 (May 2012). Old 60csx may not fetch a good price on Ebay and keeping it might be an option - so we are talking here about cheap laptop size investment.

For new buyers, it might be of note that you can get used 60csx for a bargin on Ebay vs. spending a fortune on new 62-class machine.

Of note is a quick outline of model versions offered by Garmin for hiking: naval units, as they float; Montana class all pretty GPS seies, 62 class rugged series and cheap E-trex GPS sets.

I am mostly concerned with the 62-series GPS models from Garmin, as I have no need for floating GPS, Montana style GPS units are too "fragile" and thus it comes down to 60 vs. 62

Here is a quick comparison:

In short, unless you especially need some feature of the 62 series the 60 is still a great GPS, no need to upgrade... sort of nice to know that there is no need to spend all that $$$