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Garmin WebUpdater

Garmin WebUpdater

Firmware upgrader for Garmin GPS units.

Version:  2.0.6

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Which products does this actually support?

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Contributed by: linguist Sunday, April 01 2007 @ 09:12 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

If this is an example of Garmin's Mac support, they still have a ways to go.

I bought a GPSMAP 76CS a couple of years ago, and have been frustrated ever since by the inability to load maps to it, update it, etc. Virtual PC never provided an environment where I could see it, and I kept imagining they might actually come through with some Mac support.

This software can't see the 76CS, even though it is a model with a USB connection. Since there is no indication anywhere of what models the program does support, I had hoped this would be one of them, but apparently it's a "discontinued" model, and thus out of luck.

The problem, of course, is that Garmin's USB drivers are (or at least used to be) strange and non-standard. But you would think that the one organization that could write software top accommodate that (given that they won't allow anyone else to) would be Garmin. But no such luck.
  

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