Streets and Trips GPS Unit

Hey, i have MS Streets and Trips w/ GPS locator...
i am buying a MBP, will the GPS unit that came with S&T work on my mac? i know the software wont, but the unit itself??

Hi,
MS Streets and Trips should work flawlessly with BootCamp or Parallels/Fusion.
I am not aware of any problems with it.
Regards
Stefan

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