Good HRM, not so Mac compatible

By bob600rr Ranked #431 - Running Watches March 12, 2007

The Polar S625X is a great HRM that I have been using now for a month. Before that, I was using a S120. I upgraded because I wanted to track distance run and pace which it does fairly accurately.
The data link via IR does not work with my Macbook pro without some help. I run parallels for Mac on my machine with Windows XP. I also own a palm Tungsten T5; to get data transferred from the S625X, I have the following stuff:
- MySportTraining by VidaOne, Inc (for Palm and for PC)
- MySportTraining Polar by VidaOne, Inc (for Palm)
- After working out, set up connect on the HRM and on sync the data to the palm.
- Whenever I need to hotsync my pda to the mac (running windows xp), I just hot sync and the data goes to MySportTraining. From there, you can do anything with it.
Until Polar wakes up and starts supporting mac users, workarounds like the one I described above are the only ways to get data to your Mac.
Its not a big deal for me but if it sounds too cumbersome, recommend another product.

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