Has anyone ever mentioned that this would be possible in the future? I thought the reason behind the serial connection was due to the way it was connected inside the unit - ie. you don't have the software layers running for USB nor ethernet when you want to do a lower level operation like flash the unit.

As an aside, aren't there any hardware solutions for DB-9 serial connections for MacOS? I should probably know this since I use Macs every day, but my main concern is graphics hardware. Of course I don't know how well a configuration like this would work with Virtual PC nor the flasher software.