Palm Desktop for Mac: Run Mac version or Win version in Fusion?

[dacreativeguy]

I just bought my wife a new Al MacBook and need to migrate her Treo 700p from her old Windows machine to the new Mac. I used to use Palm Desktop for Mac and know it is a little quirky and may have some issues with Leopard, so I'm trying to decide whether I should go down that path or just install Fusion and run the windows version in a VM. Anybody have any recommendations either way? She uses Palm Desktop only for syncing, so I don't need to worry about the Leopard iSync issues.

Thanks

 

[synth3tik]

Buying ans installing both VMWare and Windows seems to be overkill if your wife is just going to be syncing the phone. I would just run the Mac version of it and keep a back up on hand.

 

[dubhe]

I use Missing Sync for BlackBerry which I know is not for your Palm, but it always seems to delete files or otherwise jumble them up (mostly address book stuff). I now use VMFusion and sync with an XP address book which I periodically export to OS X Address Book. At least that way is 100% reliable, and reversible.

 

[DaveF]

Palm Desktop works fine on our 2.4 GHz (intel) MacBook Pro and 5-year old dual-G5 tower, both running 10.5.5.

I'd try it on your Mac, as it should work.

 

[dacreativeguy]

I made a few backups, crossed my fingers, and did the deed. It seemed to work just fine.