December 17, 2007 20:06
I have used both Route 66 and Route Buddy, and was disappointed with both. The search option in Route 66 never seemed to find what I was looking for. Route Buddy takes a long time to load, the maps (at least in the Boston area) are clearly inferior to those in the Delorme (MS) product, and when I ask it to make a route from A to B, it never picks a reasonable route (I try it on routes that I know). To force it to pick a particular route by excluding streets, it makes up ridiculous new routes.
For someone with a MacIntel system, I strongly recommend a Windoz program. No experience with the mapping software from MS, but I have used the DeLorme software for years. And I agree with Rich that BootCamp is better than Parallels for running PC programs. The boot time is often faster than coming up in Parallels, and now in Leopard you can see all your PC files in your Mac finder window. So only if you need to run a Mac and PC program at the very same time is it worth not rebooting in the other world.
For someone with a MacIntel system, I strongly recommend a Windoz program. No experience with the mapping software from MS, but I have used the DeLorme software for years. And I agree with Rich that BootCamp is better than Parallels for running PC programs. The boot time is often faster than coming up in Parallels, and now in Leopard you can see all your PC files in your Mac finder window. So only if you need to run a Mac and PC program at the very same time is it worth not rebooting in the other world.