June 1, 2010 09:20
Steve,
I went through this same thing several years ago and gave up. I now use an eeepc my son gave me for sailmail and use their gribviewer, though when critical I transfer the grib file to my Mac with a USB drive. Not slick but works. Just wish I could get the grib into my iPad, which has become my primary computer on the boat. Oh, I originally used parallels and fusion, but got extremely frustrated with them after foolishly loading Win7 and it slowed to a crawl. Even after rolling back to XP it crawled and gave up trying to fix it - wasn't worth the time.
You'd think there was a reasonable amount of interest in a Mac version considering the time and space on Sailmail's website telling you to set it up with Parallels. I believe the issue is money - I think Rich offered to do it but needed the required hardware (I.e. Pactor modem and possibly a radio), not an easy thing for essentially a volunteer organization. Now if someone had some spares laying around... What would be even better would be an iPad version
Though I haven't met him personally, Jim only lives a mile or so from where I'm anchored. I really should go introduce myself, if I was just a Mac programer.
Scot
I went through this same thing several years ago and gave up. I now use an eeepc my son gave me for sailmail and use their gribviewer, though when critical I transfer the grib file to my Mac with a USB drive. Not slick but works. Just wish I could get the grib into my iPad, which has become my primary computer on the boat. Oh, I originally used parallels and fusion, but got extremely frustrated with them after foolishly loading Win7 and it slowed to a crawl. Even after rolling back to XP it crawled and gave up trying to fix it - wasn't worth the time.
You'd think there was a reasonable amount of interest in a Mac version considering the time and space on Sailmail's website telling you to set it up with Parallels. I believe the issue is money - I think Rich offered to do it but needed the required hardware (I.e. Pactor modem and possibly a radio), not an easy thing for essentially a volunteer organization. Now if someone had some spares laying around... What would be even better would be an iPad version
Though I haven't met him personally, Jim only lives a mile or so from where I'm anchored. I really should go introduce myself, if I was just a Mac programer.
Scot