Garmin GPS - Mapsource & Mac

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Mapsource & Mac

rvalcourt@persona.ca

2008-02-21, 10:33 pm

Hello,
I know nothing about Mac computers. A friend of mine has one two years
old and has asked me to install a legal copy of Mapsource on it. Can
it be done?
Rick

Klatch

2008-02-21, 10:33 pm

<rvalcourt@persona.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I know nothing about Mac computers. A friend of mine has one two years
> old and has asked me to install a legal copy of Mapsource on it. Can
> it be done?
> Rick

Not a Mac user, but found this information on the Garmin site:
http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/

Colin Wilson

2008-02-21, 10:33 pm

> I know nothing about Mac computers. A friend of mine has one two years

> old and has asked me to install a legal copy of Mapsource on it. Can
> it be done?

Bootcamp / parallels ?

Phil Wheeler

2008-02-22, 3:33 pm

rvalcourt@persona.ca wrote:
> Hello,
> I know nothing about Mac computers. A friend of mine has one two years
> old and has asked me to install a legal copy of Mapsource on it. Can
> it be done?
> Rick

There is Mac software at the Garmin website which
will load maps, etc.

http://www8.garmin.com/support/down...ils.jsp?id=3825

Phil

Michael Sipes

2008-02-24, 12:33 pm

Here is a little more specific info for the current state of Garmin map
products on the Mac.

First, there is no application comparable to Map Source for the Mac. There
is an application called Bobcat in beta that proposes to be the "map source"
type of application for Mac. The map products themselves (i.e.. Topo 2008,
City Navigator 2008, etc.) can be converted for use on the Mac. The product
must first be loaded on a PC and a PC application called map converter run
to produce a converted map that can be moved to the Mac.

Once on the Mac, there are three separate applications that function with
the map product. Map Manager will install the map product so that Bobcat
can display and interact with the map product. Another application called
Map Installer will upload the map product to a Garmin USB capable unit or to
a SD or micro-SD memory card. Detailed instructions are available on the
Garmin website for the conversion and installation process.

This process may be about to change as Garmin has recently announced a Mac
compatible version of City Navigator NT. I have no information yet on
installation and use of this new product.

Hope this adds some clarity.

Mike

On 2/21/08 2:44 PM, in article
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"rvalcourt@persona.ca" <rvalcourt@persona.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
> I know nothing about Mac computers. A friend of mine has one two years
> old and has asked me to install a legal copy of Mapsource on it. Can
> it be done?
> Rick

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Jack Erbes

2008-02-24, 12:33 pm

Michael Sipes wrote:
> Here is a little more specific info for the current state of Garmin map
> products on the Mac.
<snip>

Michael,

Thanks for the coherent description on the ongoing Garmin/MacIntosh
saga. I try to keep a couple of Mac using friends who are fellow GPS
addicts but not newsgroup readers appraised on the status of the program.

And your inputs and this report are invaluable for that.

Please consider yourself to be the newsgroup's Mac expert and feel free
(maybe even obligated?) to keeping us up to date on this. :> )

Thanks again,

Jack

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(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

Phil Wheeler

2008-02-25, 4:33 am

Michael Sipes wrote:
> Here is a little more specific info for the current state of Garmin map
> products on the Mac.
>
> First, there is no application comparable to Map Source for the Mac. There
> is an application called Bobcat in beta that proposes to be the "map source"
> type of application for Mac. The map products themselves (i.e.. Topo 2008,
> City Navigator 2008, etc.) can be converted for use on the Mac. The product
> must first be loaded on a PC and a PC application called map converter run
> to produce a converted map that can be moved to the Mac.
>
> Once on the Mac, there are three separate applications that function with
> the map product. Map Manager will install the map product so that Bobcat
> can display and interact with the map product. Another application called
> Map Installer will upload the map product to a Garmin USB capable unit or to
> a SD or micro-SD memory card. Detailed instructions are available on the
> Garmin website for the conversion and installation process.
>
> This process may be about to change as Garmin has recently announced a Mac
> compatible version of City Navigator NT. I have no information yet on
> installation and use of this new product.
>
> Hope this adds some clarity.
>
> Mike
>

I use both Macs and PCs. At the current state of
Garmin's Mac software, loading maps from a PC is
far more user friendly .. unlike most Mac vs. PC
comparisons.

Hopefully, Garmin will improve their Mac
software's usability over time.

Phil

Jack Erbes

2008-02-25, 7:33 am

Phil Wheeler wrote:
<snip>
> I use both Macs and PCs...

I admire your for your dexterity and mental acuity. I was at Best Buy
the other day and they had a table set up there and a guy "pushing" the
Mac laptops.

Incredible little things. I was almost afraid to touch or handle them
because the were so thin and light I was afraid I might hurt one.

I woke one up and looked at the desktop and immediately went into the
time honored brain freeze that Macs always inspire in me. I simply did
not know what to do next. :> )

So I thought, well, I'll just click on something and see what happens.
And then I noticed that there were no click buttons in the area of the
touch pad. Hmmm...

So I looked at the icons on the desktop and saw nothing familiar or
inspiring. Nothing offered to coach me along, like a Start, Programs,
or etc.

It's obvious that the only solution for me would be to get one alone for
a while and see what I could see. But I'm not quite ready to make the
leap yet...

What's your opinion of the practicality of having dual boot Mac O/S and
Windows O/S laptop as the one laptop in your life? That is something
that sounds like a solution for the person that wants to still have some
Windows applications in their lives.

Jack

At the current state of Garmin's Mac software,
> loading maps from a PC is far more user friendly .. unlike most Mac vs.
> PC comparisons.
>
> Hopefully, Garmin will improve their Mac software's usability over time.
>
> Phil

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Bruce in alaska

2008-02-25, 12:33 pm

In article < 47c2a959$0$24114$4c3
68faf@roadrunner.com>,
Jack Erbes <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote:

> What's your opinion of the practicality of having dual boot Mac O/S and
> Windows O/S laptop as the one laptop in your life? That is something
> that sounds like a solution for the person that wants to still have some
> Windows applications in their lives.
>
> Jack

Jack, I run a Mac Shop, and have been using PC CoProcessors, Virtual PC,
BootCamp, Parallels, and VM Fusion, to bring the Windoz World to my
desktop, when needed, for many Years. The Mac has had Dual Boot
capability thru the above for many years, albeit, slow, and cumbersome,
in some of the incantations. With the Intel based Macs, available in
this day and age, Virtualization Software like Parallels, and Fusion
are making Dual Boot, a realization, and a vary nice tool for the
Practical User. It still "Blows Away" some, in the Windoz World, when
they look at my 42" LCD in the livingroom, and see the Mac Desktop with
a Windoz MicroSqaush 2000 Pro Window running some PC Software, while the
Mac side is playing iTunes songs, on my Intel/Mac Mini that runs the Home
Entertainment System.

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Jack Erbes

2008-02-25, 3:33 pm

Bruce in alaska wrote:
<snip>
> Jack, I run a Mac Shop, and have been using PC CoProcessors, Virtual PC,
> BootCamp, Parallels, and VM Fusion, to bring the Windoz World to my
> desktop, when needed, for many Years. The Mac has had Dual Boot
> capability thru the above for many years, albeit, slow, and cumbersome,
> in some of the incantations. With the Intel based Macs, available in
> this day and age, Virtualization Software like Parallels, and Fusion
> are making Dual Boot, a realization, and a vary nice tool for the
> Practical User. It still "Blows Away" some, in the Windoz World, when
> they look at my 42" LCD in the livingroom, and see the Mac Desktop with
> a Windoz MicroSqaush 2000 Pro Window running some PC Software, while the
> Mac side is playing iTunes songs, on my Intel/Mac Mini that runs the Home
> Entertainment System.

So if I understand that, "Windoz MicroSqaush 2000 Pro Window" is running
in a window on a Mac desktop?

I was thinking more in terms of having the choice at startup of booting
to a Mac desktop or a Windows desktop. And thinking, or at least
hoping, that either desktop would run at speeds typical for the hardware
involved. None of the slow and cumbersome incantations, I've seen those
in action and want nothing to do with them.

Jack

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Jack Bunce

2008-02-25, 10:33 pm

Jack Erbes wrote:

>...
> I was thinking more in terms of having the choice at startup of booting
> to a Mac desktop or a Windows desktop. And thinking, or at least
> hoping, that either desktop would run at speeds typical for the hardware
> involved. None of the slow and cumbersome incantations, I've seen those
> in action and want nothing to do with them...

That was back in the old days Jack. The new virtualized Windows sessions run
pretty fast, i.e., perhaps only marginally slower than if they were run
natively.

But, as a more direct answer to your question: a MacBook Pro booting
directly into Windows XP was until very recently the fastest Windows laptop
available. (If I can find the link I will post it.)

Just be certain to get a newer Mac; one that has an Intel processor. I
probably wouldn't recommend a MacBook Air though -- that's the really,
really thin machine just announced.

Jack Erbes

2008-02-25, 10:33 pm

Jack Bunce wrote:
> Jack Erbes wrote:
>
>
> That was back in the old days Jack. The new virtualized Windows sessions run
> pretty fast, i.e., perhaps only marginally slower than if they were run
> natively.
>
> But, as a more direct answer to your question: a MacBook Pro booting
> directly into Windows XP was until very recently the fastest Windows laptop
> available. (If I can find the link I will post it.)
>
> Just be certain to get a newer Mac; one that has an Intel processor. I
> probably wouldn't recommend a MacBook Air though -- that's the really,
> really thin machine just announced.

That sounds like what I was wanting to know. The Air was the one I
didn't want to touch, the other one was a standard MacBook with a 2.2
GHz Dual Core processor. It caught my eye because it had a smaller
display, 13" I think. So a standard MacBook would run Windows at a
reasonable clip too then I guess.

The MacBook Pro looks like the counterparts to the oversized (for my
taste and needs) Windows laptops.

All the newer Windows laptops are going to the Widescreen displays and
running Vista and I don't really want or need either one of those. I
want something that if I travel I don't want anything as big or heavy as
the Widescreen models are.

I recently bought a Fujitsu LifeBook S7110 because it was about all I
could find that did not have a Widescreen and come with Vista. I'm not
real happy with it but it is working for me. It is a Centrino Duo 1.66
GHz and is running XP Pro (my first step "up" from Windows 2000). I'm
fine with the speed on that, the dual core processor seem like a good
step forward from the P4's.

We're a little off topic here but I appreciate your discussing the
details.

Jack

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