I bought a new MacBook Pro a few weeks ago to replace my ageing Dell Precision M60. I’m not missing Windows at all, but there are two apps that don’t have Mac versions, which I use almost daily. Those are Quickbooks and CyclingPeaks.

The solution is to install VMWare Fusion, which lets you run a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. Sounds inefficient in theory, but reality is that both apps run a lot faster than they did on my old Dell.

To get my Powertap downloading to CyclingPeaks I needed to install the USB driver from the Saris website. Once that was done VMWare picked it up on COM3, and CyclingPeaks downloaded first time.