Originally Posted by
Steve B.
Garmin recommends using their Express software on a PC for map updates. They are painfully slow. I often skip as they are rarely anything that affects me.
It’s a bit slow. So, you plug it in and leave it alone for a while. It’s not like it’s something that is updated frequently (once or twice a year). It doesn’t really matter that it’s slow. I’ve never timed it (and I have two devices) but it doesn’t seem longer than an hour. (How long it takes is such a nonissue that it isn’t worth the effort to time it.)
If you don’t care about the update, don’t update (nothing wrong with that).
But if it’s “painful”, you have a
very low pain threshold.
(I make changes to OSM maps. So, the updates matter to me.)