November 9, 2009 19:31
I've been experimenting with MacENC and macbook with Navionics Gold charts via the x-traverse system. I liked it and decided to build a boat computer based on a Mac min, and touch-screen and an automotive 12V supply. OK got all that up and running but now I find that I can't just transfer over my charts as the license from x-traverse is tied to hardware.
Now this sucks big time. We are told that when we download charts from x-traverse there is not time limit on them... rubbish it's about 2-years max due to the average live expectancy of computer hardware.
I can't see a way to add a second machine or transfer the license completely over to my new hardware advertised on the x-traverse site.
Does anybody know how to achieve this transfer?
Most suppliers of commercial ENC charts will supply new hardware license keys but you pay big bucks for those charts too !
Any ideas anybody?
Cheers
Chris
Now this sucks big time. We are told that when we download charts from x-traverse there is not time limit on them... rubbish it's about 2-years max due to the average live expectancy of computer hardware.
I can't see a way to add a second machine or transfer the license completely over to my new hardware advertised on the x-traverse site.
Does anybody know how to achieve this transfer?
Most suppliers of commercial ENC charts will supply new hardware license keys but you pay big bucks for those charts too !
Any ideas anybody?
Cheers
Chris