Wow, I've had my Cobalt for a year now and I have switched over to Macdive for the last 20-30 logged dives with no "noticeable" issues and I currently have the 1.17 firmware installed (what a beat down of a process that was). Now I get an email about the firmware problem with the leap year crud for Mac users. I wish this would end too, it's constantly something that's wrong or was missed or a glitch just big enough to require complete restructuring of the firmware.
If you have the 1.17 firmware installed you have already fixed the leap year display issue. Installing the current firmware is one of the fixes, the other is to just manually change the date after March 1.
It didn't require but a slight change to the firmware to correct that particular error, but we need to replace the firmware in the Cobalt in order to make any change at all- that's just the nature of these sort of systems, and we were ready to go with a new version with some enhancements. Regular firmware updates allow us to respond to user feature requests and offer improvements, as well as fix any issues that turn up.
Not sure what you mean about the Mac users, except that firmware updating is not working reliably in Apple's new Lion operating system. That's an issue we have been trying to get help with from Apple, but without much success.
So far as I can tell, MacDive and Diving Log 5.0 are working well for pretty much everyone. The Atomic Windows software, OTOH, has had many issues with varying Windows systems. That was 3rd party product, and for those of you who have followed this thread all along, you know our (the Cobalt designers) recommendation was for Atomic to not offer their own dive log software, but to rely on people like Nick from MacDive and Sven of Diving Log who are dedicated to developing and supporting a good solution.
We are working on a new method for updating firmware that will take all the various desktop operating system variations out of the picture, those issues have been about 98% of the problems we have experienced.
Ron