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Former Member over 16 years ago

Hi all!

I am trying out Connect since a few weeks now, and I have to say that I am really disappointed. Connect is completely useless for me and causes nothing but frustration. Here is why:

- it is slow and extremely buggy, it often hangs and does not display the graph on the details page.
- uploading from my Forerunner 305 crashes both Connect and Safari (4.0.3 on a 10.5.8-driven iMac G5) every time! It often needs three or four (!) attempts to upload a new acivity.
- to see the map in the player, I always have to click one of the two buttons selecting the y-axis data (elevation, speed, etc.). Took some time to find that out...
- the player feature itself is completely useless. Simply too fast, and I don't see what that 'movie' wants to tell me. The player seems to be the only possibility to align location and workout data, though.
- selecting 'total time' for the x-axis completely crashes the player every time.

I know that Connect is in an early stage of development, but - sorry Garmin- I have never seen such a bad and useless piece of software before. The same holds true for Training Center for Mac. Simply useless. I can't do anything here. Not even delete objects!

I realized that I have to spend some money and go for a useful training software like Ascent or rubiTrack. I really regret that, because I like Garmin devices very much. My Forerunner is not my first Garmin product and definitely will not be my last one. But in terms of software: ouch!

Ah, there is still one good thing about Connect: it looks nice and Mac-like...

Cheers
Schnickschnacker

0 Former Member over 16 years ago

...I realized that I have to spend some money and go for a useful training software like Ascent or rubiTrack. ...

Look into SportTracks. An excellent and free alternative if you do not require web-based software. (Though there are even methods to enable web-based sharing of the same logbook from multiple computers, if you really wanted.)

0 Dr Phil over 16 years ago

Look into SportTracks. An excellent and free alternative if you do not require web-based software. (Though there are even methods to enable web-based sharing of the same logbook from multiple computers, if you really wanted.)

SportTracks should not be seen as FREE. Yes it is free to try, but if you use it, support the great work that goes into it by making a donation.

0 Former Member over 16 years ago

Look into SportTracks. An excellent and free alternative if you do not require web-based software. (Though there are even methods to enable web-based sharing of the same logbook from multiple computers, if you really wanted.)

Yes, SportTracks seems to be really good (from what I have seen on the web page). BUT: I have a Mac :eek:
There seems to be a possibility to use SportTracks on a Mac under the Mono environment (some open source .net thing). But I don't really know if and how that works. Does anybody have experience with that?

Cheers
Schnickschnacker

0 Dr Phil over 16 years ago

SportTracks with Bootcamp or Parallels or Fusion or whatever. Either way you will need Windoze. Check out the SportTracks forum. There's some discussion there about Ubuntu or some other Linux variant and SportTracks.

FWIW I have a Mac with Parallels and Windoze.

0 Former Member over 16 years ago

Thank you, philipshambrook, I expected this suggestion with parallels ;) But in no way will any Version of Windows ever be installed on any Computer in my home! When I said that Connect is the worst software I ever encountered, I was lying. Windows is still worse... :D

Seriously: I have tried rubiTrack and I like it. Of course it's just in Version 1.7, so there is still a lot functionality to add. But it's got a beautiful interface and it works fine and almost bug-free.

Cheers
Schnickschnacker