Garmin Basecamp on Mac M1

My Oregon 600 has died so I was planning to buy a new Garmin Montana 700i or 750. However I've just installed the latest available version of Basecamp on my M1 Mac to find that it doesn't work. The base global map doesn't render proper, it's crazily slow, and it doesn't recognise anything from SD card.

It's possible this isn't to do with the M1 Mac at all, but Basecamp's problems with Big Sur, which Intel Mac users are also experiencing. That being said it would Mac sense to develop a version that could run natively on the M1.

I would love to buy a new Garmin GPS, but without a version of Basecamp that actually runs on an M1 Mac I might have to look elsewhere.

I wonder if Garmin has any plans to fix this.

0 5186147 over 3 years ago

My M1 MacBook Air does not recognize my BMW Navigator 6. A Garmin product. Uh Oh

0 Skellum over 3 years ago in reply to 5186147

I have an M1 Mac Mini and it does see my Nav 6 - it did take quite a time initially - not sure if that helps.

0 7395073 over 3 years ago

same here with last version, 4.8.12, Basecamp doesn't see the device, but Express does.

0 Mikes-Nav5 over 2 years ago

Interpose a USB 2.x HUB. Apparently, it's 7.5W power vs the MAC's 100W is the solution. The NAVs fail to see the new MACs as a data connection.

0 7395073 over 2 years ago

My very fresh experience is that Garmin has problem with large number of usb-c hubs/docks. Only apple reduction works well for me. Hubs like Satechi, Mobi, hyperdrive doesn’t work. Mac sees the device as Composite device, but Basecamp has issues to establish connection.