Forget The In Car Pc Incar Mac Is Here

[Wosket]

i dont have any problems playing anything on my macs.

[MrADeveci]

i dont have any problems playing anything on my macs.

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I'm starting to think that you are on some kind of commision out of this now ?

[Wosket]

LOL! i just find it quite strange that people think macs are so uncompatible. i contstantly switch between mac and pc using the same files without any probems at all.

[Monster-Mat]

i think the outputs/imputs from the camp are the 3 coloured plugs (white,red,yellow).as fouind on things like PS.dunno Mark can you tell me

[el_gencer]

Is there sat nav software available for the mac on os-x ? or can you use some thing like wine to emulate windows operation ?

[Wosket]

there probably is sat nav software for the mac, havent looked into it but you can get a windows emulator if there isnt.

red white and yellow leads mat, so more like av type connectors?

[aido]

Haven't ever used any satnav stuff on OSX, there is stuff which can talk to GPS devices but no idea how good it is..

You just get Microsoft Virtual PC to emulate a full PC, emulates a 400Mhz PC, runs okay, not going to be as quick as native code but it's usable.

Don't know if there's a port of Wine for OSX, maybe part of the Fink project if you have an X Window server installed?

[peter026]

I'm lost with all this talk about macs ,codequs or whatever,I just push a button and my PC comes on

[aido]

You sure you've not got a Mac there then Peter ;)

[peter026]

Only a plastic one Aido :P

[aido]

Hehe, as Pete (Scorpion) will tell you, I've got a flasher mac too ;)

But for those of you worried about codecs etc, the Videolan and MPlayer clients have the codecs built in to them so you don't need to worry about them at all..

I've even had really obscure stuff playing in these clients, like the Shadowrealm format stuff etc...

WMV9 is an exception as you need the Microsoft Windows Media Player for that, but they do a port of that for the Mac..

You can get Videolan for the PC too and that has everything inside the executable, no dicking about installing codecs to get anything to play!

You can also get MS Office as a native product for the Mac so no problems there, that pretty much covers most people off straight away!

[Anees]

Very tempting.

But for car use Sat Nav would be my primary need!

I know you can use Virtual PC -but it is pretty slow and not going to be better then an actual PC.

If some one knows of a good Native Voice Guided Sat Nav program for the Mac then I think I'm sold!

I would also need some Xenerc drivers! :D

[Brettster]

Xenarc drivers are on the CD that came with your screen for mac and linux as well as pc

I got some very nice (FREE) gps software for my car pc

uses a modified frontend of destinator, with full sexy voice and touch screen input, maps were downloaded for free too for any country, and all i had to buy was a cheap eBay £30 USB GPS reciver.

Bargain

then I pulled all the car stuff out of my IS, so used it once !! worked good and the price was right :)

[Wosket]

it was a nice setup you had in the IS brett.

so will the GS see a mini mac installed?

[Brettster]

Im very tempted to :)

the GS has a screen in already so Im going to loose the Touchscreen control of the computer

what i need to do is look into the software side of playing mp3's on a mac

and a power supply issue

had the perfect car PC powersupply , but i doubt it would work on the mac :(

[Wosket]

i'm sure you'll sort it all out brett, then you can put an apple sticker on the exterior of the GS :o :D

[Anees]

Thanks Brett.

Didn't realise that the Xenarc had mac drivers. :)

This is probably a longshot but:

I was thinking -Infomap Navigator has a Linux version - couldn't this be run on Mac OSX without emulation since it is based on Linux anyway?

[Brettster]

I think it would have to be ported to OSX it might not be a huge job, but well out of my Depth

have a look on www.mp3car.com

they have been rattling on about this mac for incar use too

:)