I recall hearing unhappiness when trying USB under VPC, but joy with serial.

The first company to support Mac will win a customer right quick.I'll switch without blinking (unless it's Cobra.fo course). Then again, none of the GPS manufacturers I know of support Macs, so it's a bummer.I'll tell you this, though. I love the routing and auto-re-routing software.but if they would just support Mac, we Mac users would have it so much better. What I do, when I can afford to, is have the Route 66 maps loaded into MacGPS Pro, and then leave the Garmin GPS V hooked up to it, and follow the directions on the much larger powerbook screen.This is incredibly inefficient and cumbersome.but it's an awfully big screen!It's really too bad about Garmin. The upgrade (which is emailed to you free for a year), just arrived today, so the latest version is 5.2.0. I use the GPS V (which is serial) so can't really comment. Their site mentions Garmin USB devices, so I'm not sure whether there's any problems. I upgraded my PowerBook just for this purpose, and it seems to have been worth it.The other thing is, even though MacGPS pro can't upload routable maps (maybe it can, but I haven't been able to figure it out), it works pretty well.

It's best if you can dish out for lots of RAM for your MAC and then give VPC about 768MBs.

So a couple of comments, though everyone seems to have said everything.For VPC, the processor is certainly an issue with, but a bigger issue is RAM. It looks like gpsbabel will soon solve the USB issues, however I think that hell will freeze over before Garmin writes software to allow Mac users to upload maps to their units.īut then I have always found the base-map that comes with the GPSr perfectly adequate for what I do with it.Try searching for GPS at to see a selection of the available software.JeremyA Edited Augby JeremyA. The Garmin software won't work with Macs (except for with Virtual PC), but there is plenty on Mac software out there that happily communicates with Garmin units via the serial connection.The only things that you can't (currently) do without resorting to Virtual PC is upload new maps to your GPSr and use the USB connection.

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