Update Garmin nuvi GPS firmware on a Mac

Apr 06, '06 07:19:00AM

Contributed by: danham

Seeing the TomTom post, I thought I'd chime in that while everyone waits (and waits) for Garmin to make good on its Mac compatibility promise, the new nüvi 350 (a great in-car GPS) is already fully Mac compatible, only it seems Garmin doesn't even know it!

Last night, I updated my nüvi's firmware to 3.2 using nothing but my G4 iMac, 10.3.9, and a USB cable. It's almost too easy to call a "hint." Download the updater from Garmin. It's a .exe self-extracting archive (boo, hiss). Drop it on Stuffit Expander. Mount an SD card, either in your nüvi attached via USB, or in a card reader.

Drag the Garmin folder from the expanded archive to the card. Put the card in the nüvi and boot 'er up. Let the nüvi do its full update process. That's it.

If you're updating from a version of 2.9 or older, be sure to back up your waypoints file first, found in the main nüvi directory. Again, it's drag and drop. No Windows needed.

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