Hey Peps
has anyone successfully used a Garmin Foretrex and Map Source software on a Mac ? And also Realspeed ?. i've just switched from a pc to mac and hope i can take the garmin with me !.
I have reviewed the garmin website which wasn't much help.
Thanks
JC
Hey mate,
I use macs exclusively, and still run Realspeed through Parallels. It works fine.
Alternatively you can use:
1) GPSActionReplay Pro (gpsactionreplay.free.fr/)
2) KA72 (www.ka72.com/)
GPSActionReplay should be able to download your foretrex natively, if you have a USB->serial adapter. You also need to install the javax.comm library if you want to do this.
Parallels should let you run whatever windows software you were running before as well 
You won't regret getting a mac, they rock 
Thanks Nebs
I'm loving the Mac so far but will need to try and set it up as you suggest.
Thanks for the advice - would be bad for one of the SRM to be offline during the season !
I've looked around, and as far as I can tell there are several options for users to extract data from Garmin GPSs. In order of preference:
1) GPSResults comes in a Mac version. I don't know if that version can read from Garmins. Trialware, so you can try it and see. The plus is that it also does results calculation on your local Mac if you set it up right.
2) I thought that GPSARPro had mac support, but I can't find a download link right now. That is also a good option.
3) GPSBabel comes in a MAC version (www.gpsbabel.org) and has some special notes in its support section about Garmins and Macs, which is good. It is free (donationware.) This link: http://www.bensinclair.com/article/how-to-use-a-garmin-gps-with-your-mac describes how to set this up.
4) There is a specialist MacGPS software that supposedly supports Garmin devices. Costs about $70 or so. (www.macgpspro.com)
5) As Nebs says, you could use parallels or similar to access PC based software.
6) Garmin supposedly has some specialised software for Macs (see www.tuaw.com/2008/01/17/garmin-improves-mac-support-for-gps-releases-a-bobcat/) but no idea if this is supported or still exists. (Perhaps this should be option 1?)
If you can get the GPX file off the device, but don't feel like doing the analysis via a Mac-based applciation, you can still upload from Mac to www.ka72.com (my site-plug) for free. I haven't tested wth Safari, but it works fine with Firefox and Chrome. (And ie of course, though what kind of madfool uses that I don't know!)
Dislaimer: I don't have a Mac, or a Garmin, so all this comes with a pinch of salt. If anyone has practical experience to post, that would be great. Then I can't be blamed for wasting this guy's time 
Dylan.
