Suunto and Mac?

[jameslogan]

I have been looking at buying a T6, has anyone found software that makes the two work together?

As an aside, I can't believe Suunto is so dumb for skipping out on the Apple community. Apple users often have a high disposable income (except for me), like well designed products, and often buy the latest and greatest. Seems like a good market for Sunnto.

	Suunto Visit SuuntoWatches.com to see Suunto's full line of wrist top computers and compasses.

	Suunto t6 - Click for more info The Suunto t6 is one of the most exciting new personal training devices to hit the health and fitness market this year. The "t" in t6 (if you don't want to get too technical) stands for "training". It actually refers to the time interval between two heartbeats, or EPOC. Measured to the millisecond, this interval allows you (using the included PC software) to assess your current fitness, set a proper training load, measure your actual fitness gain over time, and achieve your overall fitness goals.

[Tyler]

I hear you, I'll pass along your comments. I'm a Mac user too, only way I've found is via running Windows on the Mac.

[wunnspeed]

I've been looking for Mac compatible software for the Suunto for over a year. I talked with the folks at iSmartTrain and they said that they'd love to do it, but Suunto won't give them their code.

Personally, I'm gettin fed up enough that I'm about to get ride of the watch in spite of the fact that I really like it. It's just the Suunto is really pissing me off by not taking action on something that's very obviously a NEED, not a WANT!!

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[kuan]

Agreed. They've had years to do it and doesn't look like they will in the future. I emailed them but got no reply.

[adman_rob]

So still no Mac support? Not even an official statement (the link "Got a Mac? - Read our Mac Post" on the site can't be found: http://www.suuntowatches.com/Suunto-t6.pro)?


mmmm... Was looking at buying T6. Guess I'll keep looking...

	Suunto t6 - Click for more info The Suunto t6 is one of the most exciting new personal training devices to hit the health and fitness market this year. The "t" in t6 (if you don't want to get too technical) stands for "training". It actually refers to the time interval between two heartbeats, or EPOC. Measured to the millisecond, this interval allows you (using the included PC software) to assess your current fitness, set a proper training load, measure your actual fitness gain over time, and achieve your overall fitness goals.

[bachfiend]

It looks as though I'll be going back to Polar. Had a brief "affair" with Suunto, love the watch, hate the software, have an Intel mac with XP installed on a Desktop Parallels, but can't get the software to work (not that I really have tried too hard, really HATE Windows with a passion, absolute rubbish, not user friendly). At least Polar works on my Mac's native OS with smarttrain (why won't Suunto at least allow someone else to do their work if they are so lazy to do it themselves?). The one thing I hated with the Polar was that the battery would go flat frequently, and then I'd have to send the watch back to the agent (in another state) to have the battery replaced. Perhaps the solution would be to have two Polar HRM. Sorry, Suunto and good riddance.

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[ejunge]

I have been running parallels on a Intel macbook and have had no issues - I am even running Leopard. I am running the TrekManager and while it does not run great... it DOES run reliably..

[macguyincali]

Guys, me and my triathlon club have purposefully boycotted Suunto until they provide decent cross platform compatibility for Mac. We recommend Garmin devices which are mac compatible and can also be used with the excellent Ascent software. Plus they have cadence and power modules for cycling. Polars are ok and work with iSmartTrain software pretty well (I use both).

Until they do this, they are missing out on a huge market. Macs compose a whopping 66% of the high end computer market (computers costing $1000+), according to NPD. The kind of people who spend a little more on their computers are the kind of people who buy expensive gadgets like the Suunto watches. The type of people who buy macs (not tooting my own horn) have higher income levels, higher education levels and are more physically active (according to numerous studies) and are more likely to spend money on multiple gadgets. Obviously the PC universe is huge and there are many many potential customers within that base, all I'm saying that the mac user base is a great, loyal customer who value companies who support their platform.

Garmin, Polar and Nike have been aware of this for some years now, although their software is not perfect (neither for PC or mac), it is compatible.

	Suunto Visit SuuntoWatches.com to see Suunto's full line of wrist top computers and compasses.

[Flying Dutchman]

I 've enjoyed using the Suunto T6 for a couple of year using an old Windows notebook to download data. But now I've decided to switch to Garmin Forerunner 405, feeling forced by the unwillingness of Suunto to accomodate Apple users and support a multi-platform computer world.

The GPS in Garmin is nice, the interface I understand to be difficult, the watches are bulky and the battery needs daily recharging. But still it is the Apple interface that's the deciding factor to switch brands and destroy my loyalty. Sorry Suunto.

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	Suunto t6 - Click for more info The Suunto t6 is one of the most exciting new personal training devices to hit the health and fitness market this year. The "t" in t6 (if you don't want to get too technical) stands for "training". It actually refers to the time interval between two heartbeats, or EPOC. Measured to the millisecond, this interval allows you (using the included PC software) to assess your current fitness, set a proper training load, measure your actual fitness gain over time, and achieve your overall fitness goals.

[feverdiva21]

Me too!! I'm very happy with my T3C but considering an upgrade as a treat probably later this year, at the moment I use the Suunto software on my work (Windows) laptop but when I upgrade it will be to a HRM which interfaces with my personal laptop - ie aMac. Looks like I too will be an ex-Suunto user before too much longer unless Suunto get things sorted, and fast.

Ginny

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[c_kais]

I can't even get my t3c to connect to my PC Pod in Vmware Fusion running Win XP SP2 on my Mac Pro. It just sits there waiting for connection.
I really don't want to install yet another copy of Windows for Boot Camp to make this work.
Anyone have any workarounds?

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