Originally Posted by
njkayaker
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.)
Well I get to use "painful" as I've done map updates on maybe 6 or more Garmin devices over many years. But I do it like you, I start and walk away. Its just weird as the map data is not a lot of data and they just like send it of a Win 3 server or something. No need to take hours, really.