Much more useful and accurate than I thought.
353651
I've only owned for a week or so, and used it twice.  I drilled a 3/16 hole precisely in a 3/8 rod.  Also drilled a 1/4 inch hole through a galvanized 1 1/4 pipe.  Perfect alignment.
2886925
after looking at several different levels of Garmins (Vista, Summit, Geko, Venture and several Magellans), I decided on this not because its a real important piece of equipment that my life would depend on, but something new and interesting to do (i.e. geocaching, traveling and so on).
I first looke at getting a GPS handheld a few years ago and at that time they were 300 bucks for a basic model w/ not nearly as many features as this. The reason I chose the Legend over the other models and brands was:
1- price + rebate.
2- 8MB of built in memory
3- preloaded roadmaps.
Those three pretty much sum up the legend. It may not be the smallest thing out there, but I was very impressed with the gadget. When I first took it outside it took about 4-5 minutes to load up and get aclimated and track the satellites and do whatever else it does. And after it did that the accuracy estimation went from ~300 feet down to between 18-20 feet and that is what I usually get for a reading.
Yesterday was the first time it picked up the WAAS satelite and I saw the accuracy at 8 feet. For some reason I don't get the WAAS connection very much, but I give that to that I read there are two of the buggers floating up there for the moment and they are both over the equator and over opposite hemispheres, and being in PA it might be a little hard to see it well at the horizon, but anyway even without then a 20 foot accuracy is plenty for geocaching.
My friend has an older Magellan 12 (one that i originally looked at buying a while ago) and he held mine and turned it on, and saw the accuracy and the below other cool functions and its three place second division reading (compared to his 2), he loved it. He even told me that the next trip he took he got mad at his because he count get better reception he threw it in the woods and was going to buy one like mine.
I read some people have trouble with reception. I never had a problem, Mine picks up between 4-5 sats while I am indoors!. The accuracy while inside is around 30 feet, but who cares, I inside right?
The other feature I love on this are the trip computer, it calculates present speed, average speed, altitude (GPS sat based not asensor like the Summit), compass, trip odometer, it even split your stopped time and moving time during the trip. (ever want to know how much time you spend at red lights going to work? this will tell you). And the best is the real time map. It plots your route along the map as it scrolls with your vehicle or path.
The reason for 4 stars and not 5. Mearly because you have to spend so much more money for the small streets that need to be loaded into it from the company's CD. But the cool thing is that I can plug it into a laptop that is running Microsoft's Streets program and it will communicate to that program so I don't really need to load the CD into the GPS.
Great gadget for a great price, especially with the ... rebate when I bought it.
Additional... Plan on spending some time in trying to figure out how to enter waypoints/places and using them to navigate (not to mention the time involved in entering coordinates manually w/ the click stick or panning the map to enter them.)
3356349
Reading the far more useful comments here is a good way to learn how to use this.
It works well, and I used it to measure supplements for capsules, so that I could get an idea of how much was needed in each.
Astonishingly good for the money, and small enough it doesn't clutter up your life.
1810747
more useful than you'd think. I really get a good stretch with this.
4626808
I've been using this unit for a month or so, and really like the information provided. I was skeptical about the "forecast" feature, but to my surprise it is quite accurate. Only gripe is that the display could be a little brighter, it's a little difficult to read with all the information displayed. Highly recommended.
1856717
Easy to use, accurate, has more features than I know what to do with and it's dirt-cheap.  What more could you ask?
516934
This thing is pretty good. I was surprised by how well it worked frankly. It tunes by the vibration of the bass/guitar, and it is totally accurate!
3927172
Surprisingly accurate. I wasn't convinced that this would be more than a stop-gap white balance solution, but it has served me very well. It isn't perfect, but has allowed me to use the customized white balance settings in my Canon (but the brand of camera doesn't matter). It is little things, like proper white balance, that will take your photos to the next level. This isn't a high-end solution, for sure, but it is a low cost, valuable tool for even a soccer parent like me.
1492835
Very handy for planning trips and has a tendancy to be more accurate for arrival time than Google maps.
3146975
Love it.  Fun to check for accuracy.  Surprisingly accurate,.
1131205
As someone has always been much more technically than socially oriented I found this book to be very useful.  Before I never thought that small things like remembering a person's name would make a difference, but this book helped me realize that it did.
502120
Seems to be very accurate and serves the purpose.
3095809
A lot better quality than I thought it would be.
1089371
I've had this over a year and it's much better than expected. Is remarkably accurate as I frequently compare it to the local ws and other amateur ws on WU.  Batteries lasted over a year before needing changed.  Keep the manual handy for when you need to change the batteries.
4333696
Fantastic,Better than I thought it would be. With a little practice you can see at a glance. Much safer than turning your head and looking back.
689784
Very impressed.  Accurate and very easy to use.  Tare feature is valuable.  Thoughtful inclusion of batteries.  Would buy again.  I did not receive a free one to test, paid for it myself.
2591922
This worked better than I expected. It's compact, easy to use, and surprisingly accurate. I compared it to my moisture meter in the kiln and it was within 2%. This is very cost effective for firewood and I won't have to lend out my $1,200 moisture meter any more.  It shipped from Germany but I'm not convinced it's German made.