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This review will confirm and expand on the unhappy review by Jon Robert. The PN-60 is best suited for someone with extensive prior experience with GPS or who can get tutoring on the device. As a novice user of handheld GPS, I may have thrown the $239 price down the toilet, as I've not been able to do much useful with it so far. The PN-60 appears quite powerful and cleverly designed. However, it is complex, and the manual describes the GPS as a collection of screens that one can invoke -- it scrupulously avoids saying how to accomplish any high-level task (such as finding your way) one might want to use a GPS for. After reading the entire manual (!!!!), I am scarcely less in the dark about using this thing than I was before. Why DeLorme never thought of writing a task-oriented user's manual is a puzzle. The supplied Topo software is also quite powerful and also poorly documented. However, I have not yet waded through all its documentation. The GPS manual, by the way, says almost nothing about the Topo software, although it is required to use the GPS most fruitfully. (I should mention that I am not a stranger to technical things. I have a PhD in a scientific field; I have used computers since 1966; I have written software used widely in my field; I have a large and growing collection of gadgets that I CAN use effectively.) In conclusion, The PN-60 is a well-built device with great promise but incredibly, frustratingly, bad documentation. The unit is highly complex, the related software is also complex, and you are pretty much on your own in figuring how to use them. (The online Wiki has bits of the manual only, and is no help.) If you have a LOT of time on your hands and like to solve difficult puzzles, this would be a great GPS for you. Or if you have extensive previous experience with GPS, you may not have the frustrating experience I did. The PN-60 is NOT RECOMMENDED for beginning GPS users.