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As many of you know, Garmin recently attended the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. For my post today I just wanted to reiterate what our stance is on Mac support at this time.
We started shipping our Mac-compatible version of Training Center at the Expo. This will be available for download on the Garmin website by the end of this month. This product will be compatible with our Forerunner 205/305 and Edge 205/305 units.
Our next step are Mac-compatible versions of our WebUpdater software that is used to updated unit firmware and the POI Loader application for Custom POI's. Both of these software programs will be available to download in Q1 of this year.
This is only the beginning. We are not going to stop working on reaching full compatibility for all of our software titles. It has taken longer than we thought it would but we are just as committed now as we were when we started this last year. Thanks for your patience.
Comments:
So glad you did this! I waited a year to buy my Edge 305, because I had to make sure that the Mac software actually shipped. So now I am a happy Garmin user!
Looking forward to being able to update the firmware on the 305 with my Mac.
Posted by: Warren Bowman | February 04, 2007 at 03:29 AM
Its great that the Training Center is now available for the Mac.
Do you have any idea of when we can use the MapSource maps with the Training Center? I would really like to use the Topo maps.
Thanks & keep up the good work!
Posted by: Scott Hagarty | January 30, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Hi Chet,
That is excellent news!
It'd be nice if your support could email back a link to your weblog when asked about the status of mac support (or if it was linked more prominently from garmin.com).
- ask
Posted by: Ask Bjørn Hansen | January 25, 2007 at 07:13 PM
This is very good news. You have made someone who has purchased 2 Garmin automotive GPS units this Christmas very happy.
Posted by: Paul Stauffer | January 24, 2007 at 08:18 AM
AWESOME- please keep us informed!
i've got a Garmin 23xx unit and love it
but would LOVe to update my maps w/ my Mac
thanks for all your hard work!
Posted by: brian Gallagher | January 24, 2007 at 07:29 AM
This will be much appreciated. I am definitely looking forward to these updates. Thanks for the update.
Posted by: phase23 | January 19, 2007 at 08:50 PM
This is great news! One of my biggest bug-bears (even more so than not having Mapsource compatability) is not being able to update the firmware on my Garmin GPS units.
The fact that the software updater will be available in Q1 is even better!
Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Gizzer | January 18, 2007 at 06:03 AM