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However, there are some rather interesting products out there in the Windows world, and with the advent of Apple's Bootcamp, as well as virtualisation platforms such as Parallels, VMWare and the excellent if under-appreciated Crossover Office, we enlightened Mac OS users can have the best of both worlds.

To this end I'm taking the slightly controversial step of creating this forum. Please note that this is not a PC vs Mac boxing ring (Mac's are better, and if you don't believe that then go and find a Windows forum to cry to. ;-) ) This is here to support and assist Mac users getting Windows software running.

Who knows what has changed from version 1.05? can we finally upload waypoints and routes?

Hi

Please be kind if this has been covered before, but at the moment I just can't spend hours trolling through hundreds of posts hoping that I stumble across what I need.

I am a Canadian living in NZ, refitting a big cruising boat, with two kids under 4, a to do list a hundred miles long and a time line for our first 1000 mile passage that is getting shorter by the day. Here goes.

I have:

Iridium 9505 with serial adapter on the bottom
Passage Plus (free NZ charts)
MacBook OS X 10.5.8
Furuno GP 32 with data feed to MacBook that works!
Mac ENC (bought today)
Mac Wx ditto
500 prepaid minutes on Iridium
a serial USB adapter that works well with the GPS (ATEN UC 232A)

ICOM M802
Pactor II Pro

almost no usable time on my hands

no experience with or understanding of boot camp

much of this hardware came with the boat. They ran windoze, so i have a mitt full of useless Serial adapters etc and a bunch of other things that are no good to me or my mac or both

Questions:

what do i need to do in order to get the Iridium to talk to my macbook? what parts and pieces are required?

How important is it that i get XGate (more subscription $)?

how can i make this process easy (or easier)?

any help will be deeply appreciated.

thanks

scott

The GPSNavX and MacENC Chart have a context menu. The context menu is accessed by [control] clicking or right clicking on the Chart window. Many of the menu items pertain to the geographic location clicked on the chart.

I spent a lot of time at the Furuno booth at the Miami Boat Show playing with the latest version of Time Zero. There'll be other news to report on it in other places but the Mac news that I found interesting is that it runs really well with Boot Camp. I used it myself on a MacBook and the performance was knock-your-socks-off incredible.

I'll definitely be getting a copy of it for my MBPRo and integrating it to my helm for real use. Reports to follow...

It will interesting to see if products like this expand the potential applications of Apple's product line in the marine electronics marketplace: http://www.redpark.com/news.html

Any plans to incorporate a Tidetech viewer into MacENC?

Andy

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010...th-gps.ars

When I connect our Raymarine C90 to MacENC, will MacENC repeat the wind data etc or just the position?

Andy

Hello fellow Mac users!
We are about two years away from setting sail for a circumnavigation and will be seriously looking at the Iridium sat phones.

On average, how long does it take, in minutes, to receive MacWX data? How much air time is needed on each call with the sat phones to receive/send email and other data? I understand the baud rate is unbelievably slow! Any info will help...thanks.

Matt