Mac vs Windows Home

TonyD · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 412

Anyone here have any opinions on the relative merits of the Mac and Windows versions of TomTom Home software ? I have a Mac capable of running either, but all things being equal I would rather run the Mac version.
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Darren · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:10 am Post subject:

I too have Macs capable of running either and all things being equal it's as big a pile of **** in Mac as it is in Windows.

It's not better or worse in Mac so for me it gives me one less reason to sully my desktop with a Windows OS Very Happy

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TonyD · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 412

Darren · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:31 am Post subject:

To be fair the mac version used to be much worse. But it is now released concurrent with the Windows version and is on the same release version.
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TonyD · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 412

NukeThemAll · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:11 pm Post subject:

Biggest problems (IMHO) with the Mac version of TT Home is that TYRE (surely one of the most useful bits of software written for the TT?) has not been ported to Mac. If you have an Intel Mac of course you have the option of Boot Camp or a Windows emulator such as Parallels. I find TYRE to be almost essential when compiling my personal favourite POIs because of its seamless integration with Google Maps
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sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

The other thing still missing from the Mac version is the "operate my device" function.
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253 · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject:

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Hmmm! Definitely doesn't work with my GO700.

And I've upgraded the TT Home to the latest 2.6.2.264
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TonyD · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 412

Likewise. Doesn't work on my 940 - I get the menu icon but when I select it it tells me it is an unsupported function.
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Froggy · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: Mac vs Windows Home

Likewise, I am using the latest Mac version of Home, 2.6.2.264, but 'Operate my Go' does not work on my 720.

It worked briefly on the previous version of Home, but seemed to use the version of Navcore/maps on the internal memory rather than the more recent versions of both which were on the SD card...

253 · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:16 pm Post subject:

You guys have me worried now Very Happy

It doesn't work on my 710 for sure.
Going to try again with 720 and will edit this psot with result.
Will also post what my different specs are as well.

Edit.

Go 720, 8.302.
Home 2.6.2.264
OSX 10.5.6

Operate my Go, definitely works, just tried it. When I bought the 720, updated it to latest 730 spec ect. Not sure if that is an issue.

Operate my Go didn't use to work until about 3 Home updates ago, one of the main reasons I was worried about doing the next few Home updates because I thought it might break it.

Edit - again.

All my stuff is running off the SD card and not internal memory. Haven't updated that for a while - or even looked at it, so not sure what version of what is in there to be honest.
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