[X4U] Mac Equivalents of Windows apps

Robert Ameeti Robert at Ameeti.net
Sat Jun 11 09:03:25 PDT 2005


At 11:59 AM -0400, 6/11/05, Art Amolsch wrote:

>Last December, I bought a Magellan RoadMate 700 portable
>GPS device. It's amazing technology and ensures that I will
>never get lost -- the driver inputs a destination, the Roadmate
>calculates a route, and if the driver varies from that route,
>the device recalculates a new route. The road database is
>built into the device and can be updated, and that's why I'm
>writing this note.
>
>Updating is accomplished over the Internet using a browser
>and the included USB cable. Simple enough, except that
>updating requires Windows. When I inquired about using
>my Mac to update, I was essentially told to drop dead --
>the Mac user base is too small. So I had to borrow a
>friend's Gateway, turning what should have been a simple
>process into an hour long pain. This was a friend, by the
>way, that I've been encouraging to switch to a Mac.
>
>The GPS is an expensive piece of technology, so Mac users
>should know about this little problem before investing.

Ditto the Garmin line.
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Robert Ameeti

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