Paul_Aris

Mine was doing the same thing. I just loaded 3.9 and it has not crashed yet.

Here are a couple of screen shots using Garmins Roadtrip in Mac OS 10.5.5 and waypoints and tracks downloaded from my Colorado.

Here are a couple of screen shots using Garmins Roadtrip in Mac OS 10.5.5 and waypoints and tracks downloaded from my Colorado.

Right, I have had mine since later February. Everytime I use it I am impressed. Some people complain about some of the paperless cache features. Well before the colorado garmin really didn't have paperless cache so to me it us a huge plus of the unit. Mine has been great on all accounts since I have owned it. If you do decide to purchase one and it does have an issue that what Garmin support is for. They still come with warranty.

My take is that the CO was taking track readings twice as often as the Legend. If so that could account for the "tighter pattern". Bottom line, if I was in the wilderness, either would get me home. Right I was actually impressed with how well they matched. Especially after everyone replacing their junk colorados. I have had the same one since I purchased and every software version I was pleased with the unit. I did set tracks to take "more often" on both units.

I did a small hike out to me Geocache today in Michigan. Trail in a nature preserve fully wooded with most leaves down. Some pines green of course. I use the same trail that starts in my backyard to get to a intersection and looped back around to the same trail back home. I my etrex legend in hand horizontal and my colorado in had vertical. Compass turned off on the colorado and latest software release. Below is the track log. It appears although similar the Colorado did a much tighter pattern on the the same trail.

It is hard to beat the map 60 series. I have a Garmin Colorado and works great with my Powerbook natively in mac os. I have Garmiin road trip so I can view my maps, tracks, routes, and waypoints. Many users on here have not liked the colorados but I have the same one I originally purchasesd the 400T and it is great. I think a few have had defective units. Blows away my etrex legend. You can do paperless caching with it as well. The best part is the pirce is super low on them right now. http://www.rei.com/product/754439?cm_mmc=c...r:referralID=NA

I have 4 GPS systems and I love the Colorado. This is my best one yet.

One thing that really attracted me to the Colorado was the fact that the unit was smaller than the GPS Map 60 CX but the screen was bigger. Making the unit just slightly bigger than the screen itself is key. Than you can keep the unit small for carrying outdoors.

I use mine in the winter so I like haveing the rock and roller I think much better than the touch screen. Can use easy with gloves and do not have to worry about sensetivty in cold weather.

See http://blog.delorme.com/2008/11/11/geocach...the-mac-and-pc/ (I'd pick out individual parts of the post but I'd end up just reposting 50% of the content). Yes, I heard they were working on it but they are not 100% there yet. Just about any web based stuff works on mac anyway such as Groundspeak. However you unit has to be recognized by the mac and they sound like they have that plus maps. But they really don't have the native map viewer software for mac yet. So do you use the Garmin on or a web based one? Not sure. They sound delorme has some sweet stuff to offer in a GPS. A larger screen like the colorado would be nice. Seing how I just got a really nice new handheld this year I will not be in the market for a new one for a while. When I am, I will certainly look at Delorme.

Now if they would add Apple Mac support and a larger screen I would have to upgrade. For now I love my Colorado 400T. The value of the Delorme seems much better though. Figure I have almost $500 into my Colorado plus and $100+ for City Nav. NT. Of course all the Mac software other than maps is free. Its funny how so many people complain about the colorado. Maybe for the price it should be better but I am very happy with mine. I've been using GPS's for years. I have several units and the colorado blows them all away. However, I am not using the unit for surveying or civil engineering where I need 6" accuracy.

Garmin Colorado, Oregon, 60Csx or Vista HCX and run natively with Mac OS. No need to boot into Windooooze (yuk) Garmin has a lot of free Mac software out there such as Roadtrip (much like Mapsource) Webupdater, and Mapmanager.

To me it is a no brainer. I have a Macintosh Powerbook and can use all the Garmin Stuff natively now. Never need to use windows. Garmin Colorado 400T. Love it. Garmin etrex Legend Garmin Nuvi 250W Verizon LG Dare with VG Navigator.

I really like the rolling menus with the rock and roller of the colorado. I am very suprised they were so quick to introduce something different. My unit has worked better than any etrex I've owned and used.

Took the Colorado Deer hunting this past weekend. I have CN NT loaded on it and used it for turn by turn directions on the way up to Camp. Out in the woods It found my location right away under tree cover, and I was able to use it with my gloves on with no problem. It was really cold out so being able to operate the thing and enter waypoint names with the gloves was nice. The larger color screen makes it nice for using CN on. The topo maps even showed the names of the state land 2 tracks we were on. I have had mine since late February and it has been the best GPS to use I have owned. Own, etrex legend, Nuvi 250W, Verizon Dare VZ Navigator touch screen. The touch screen was hard to used with gloves.

Sweet! The Mac software keeps getting better and better. I have not had to use my PC since I got my Colorado. I have the old US topo loaded, Basemap, City Navigator NT 2008 and City Navigator NT 2009 and I can view them all in Bobcat.

OK, I finally got around to calling Garmin support today. They transferred me to the Mac team. Anyway the guy on the other end of the phone was very nice and helpful. He was able to solve my problem almost right away. Found out it was the way I was trying to load the maps that was wrong. Here is what you have to do: When you get into map install and you connect you GPS then hit the continue bottom. This brings you to the screen were you select you maps. Go up to the edit menu and select "clear selections" or something like that. Then use the pull down on the map sreen to select city navigator 2009. Select what states you want to download. I did the entire mapset. Now I have 2009 installed. My problem was I had both 2008 and 2009 in my selection some how so clearing all selections freed up the space to load 2009.

I'm thinking the bug is on "the Mac side" of Garmin, not Macintosh. This is taking way too long for Garmin to sort out. C'mon DeLorme "show me the tech!". If anybody can do "platform non-specific" you can. Norm I would agree.

Another weird thing I noticed. I don't know if this is a Mapinstall thing or a Colorado thing but I had to relaod a small transparent snowmobile map I use tonight which is 728KB. It still took 2 hours to install as if I was installing City Navigator 1g file. Then after I installed it I select it on the colorado and it says MI snowmobile Trails, Alaska, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Bruinswick-p. just like the city navigator says. I when it was installed the first time it did not have that text. I checked and the maps are there. Also the first time I loaded it very quickly it seemed like just a few seconds and it was loaded. Something is strange.

I have city Navigator 2008, and 2009 installed so I can see both in Bobcat and in Mapinstall but for some reason on my Colorado no matter how many times I select 2009 and it installs the colorado still says 2008. I even deleted 2008 off of the colorado before installing.

About a month or so ago I ordered City Navigator NT 2008 for the Mac. I installed the maps on my Coloardo and everything worked great. Last week I get a free upgrade to 2009 so I choose the download format. I dowloaded it to my powerbook. Ran the install that unlocked it for my Colorado. I used mapinstall to install it on my colorado. In mapinstall it shows all of my maps that I can install. In the list is shows CN 2008 and CN 2009. I select 2009 and install it. I get down and go to my map screen on the colorad and select options and select maps. It still says CN 2008. I tied installing the maps 4 more times (2 hours per time) and it still says 2008. I am wondering if the portion of the map that displays the name of the map on the GPS unit never got changed to 2009. Because after doing some POI searches I believe I actually do have 2009 installed. Anybody else notice anything like this?

Still need to download the Mapmanager and the garmin map install.

Yes, I bought city Nav NT 2008 for Mac and it views in Bobcat.

Mine has been fairly accurate however, I did notice it jump around a few times. Last night did 3 cahes. I found all three. However, on the last one of the night my 400T lead me a spot that said I was with in 2 feet of the cache. I looked for a few minutes and nothing. There was no tree cover in this area. It was next to a river with rocks on the edge. I was standing on the rocks looking underneath some of the large openings. I then decided to walk about 4feet back to the sidewalk, and go further down the side walk and come back. The GPS lead me back to the rocky area next to the water. Looked another minute. Then I decided to go back to the sidwalk and turn the back light off. My GPS then lead me 180 degrees the other direction from the water. So the waters edge is south and now my GPS led me North. I went about 30 feet and my 400T zeroed me in real close to the cache and I spotted it. Now these are not huge distances to be off but I may have not found the cache had I not read this forum before hand and new to try a couple things with the GPS. I also can't remember or say for sure if this has not happened before with my other GPS (etrex Legend). It seems to me that in the past I always remember that some times the things just loose position and have to settle a bit. What was weird is as soon as I turned the backlight off I got a new position and found my prize. 400T compass off WAAS off Geocaching profile 3 maps on NIMH 2400-2700 (don't remember which set is in)