Not so straightforward, but doable. I just set up my daughter's 8120 on
her iBook this afternoon. RIM does provide Pocketmac for free. Very
nice. Sadly,it doesn't sync correctly without updating the
drivers.Update software on Pocketmac just dumps you to the mac page at
RIM. It should check and say, "you need x". Download now? Worse,the
correct driver is not found by clicking on the obvious, labeled driver
link. Only the German, Japanese, French, and Spanish are there. The site
search didn't help, but the crackberry forum provided an instant answer.
The driver link is at the bottom, out of sight, of the page with the
main Pocketmac download. RIM also neglected to say that you need to go
to: system/libraries/extensions and remove by hand the two blackberry
extensions before updating. Sometimes I think my daughter is taking
advantage of her old dad to do her computer scut work, but this was
really beyond her. She tried several times and gave up. Pocketmac is a
very nice bit of software, but she would have thought it crap without me.
David Newhall
Falls Church
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:25:35 -0400
From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blackberry on OS X
> >I have a user think about adding a OS X machine to his computers.
> >Currently he uses WIndows XP on a desktop and is phasing out a Windows
> >laptop. He usage is mostly basic: web surfing and email. The one one
item
> >which might be a yellow flag is his blackberry.
Apple features the sync utility from PocketMac (www.pocketmac.net).
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