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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on February 19, 2010 at 5:28pm

From searching Google it sounds like there isn't a really good alternative. The only one that was mentioned was Route 66 but the user said it was slow and awful. I'd use BootCamp and install Windows or you could use VirtualBox or Parallels and install Windows and then install Streets and Trips.

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Permalink Reply by Josh on February 20, 2010 at 10:19am

From my research I found out that I have to load windows when I use bootcamp. I didn't know that. I thought I could install bootcamp then run windows apps in it. So I'm not sure I'll do that either now. Sounds like a big hassle for just one thing to work.

Thanks for the info though. Its frustrating me for sure and all help is greatly appreciated.

Josh

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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on February 20, 2010 at 4:33pm

Yeah you do have to load Windows to use the software, but if you used a program like VirtualBox or Parallels you can run Windows and Mac OS X at the same time. It isn't as fast as running it in BootCamp since with VirtualBox you are sharing the systems resources with both OS's but it works!

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Permalink Reply by Josh on February 20, 2010 at 7:22pm

Thanks again. That's the info I was looking for. Once again this discussion forum has come to my aid.
Sorry, while I have someone that seems knowledgeable. The info I've read for boot camp seems like you could start up then choose which operating system you would like to run. Does that sound right to you? I just really don't want to replace the leopard. I mean that's why we buy macs is for the OS.
I also don't like to put that other ten gig partition on the hard drive cause knowing me I'll need it sooner or later.

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Permalink Reply by Josh on February 20, 2010 at 10:22am

Finding a place where mac is lacking wasn't my objective. I really didn't want to think mac was behind in anything. Oh well. Thanks agian.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn on February 28, 2010 at 5:19pm

You might want to check out GPSDrive.

"GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from the Internet. Speech output is supported via the "speech dispatcher" software. All GPS receivers supported by gpsd should be usable.
GpsDrive is written in C with use of the GTK+ toolkit under the GPL license, and runs with Linux, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD."

This picks up maps from the OpenStreepmap project. I haven't had the chance to check this out yet, but I intend to sometime soon

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