Update: Who Needs Garmin’s Help Anyway?!?
Dec 31st, 2006 | By Fredcaster | Category: GeneralIn case you couldn’t tell from last night’s (er, this morning’s) post, I was more than a little miffed at our friends from Olathe, Kansas and their most recent press release. So today I set out to try to get Training Center working on my Mac once-and-for-all without rebooting into Boot Camp.
I understood from The MacCast that a new beta of Parallels was available, but one look at their forums and it became clear that the begging and pleading by Garmin/Mac users still hasn’t convinced the Parallels folks to get this working. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Parallels (especially their new Coherence feature that allows PC applications to run in Mac OS X windows), but they have been totally deaf to the fact that their software does not fully support many USB devices, including Garmin GPS units.
Then I came across a blog post today that said that this should work with VMWare’s new Fusion beta product.
In case you’re not familiar with VMWare Fusion, it is virtualization technology (like Parallels Desktop for Mac) that allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X.
So I installed VMWare along with my copy of Windows XP Home (SP2), my favorite Windows anti-virus software (Nod32 by Eset) and Garmin’s Training Center software.
Guess what? It worked! I am finally able to use my Edge (or Forerunner for that matter) with Mac OS X without needing to reboot the computer into Windows.
So after 12 months of Garmin’s promises and Parallel’s assurances that they would have full compatibility, our wait is over. Just head on over to VMWare’s web site and join the public beta program. You’ll be glad you did.
Now I’m going for a ride. Happy New Year everyone!!
Have you checked out Load My Tracks?
At least you can get your tracklogs, waypoints, routes, and laps on and off.
Works great with my Edge 305 (well, getting tracklogs off, anyway. That’s all I do, really).
Glad to know somebody else in the same boat as me managed to find a solution.
Well, I’ve been looking for 6 months, and only found it last week. But I’m not bitter. Ok, I am.
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