From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 22, 2008 3:56:57 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Mac Mini is gone


Hi Mark;


On 22-Oct-08, at 3:24 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Hi there Milton, Considering my G4 Mac mini is still going OK I might  

go with the Flea 2 anyway & see what Apple comes up with...? Mark.


It's a crap shoot as to if they will replace it or not (I'm sure it hurts sales of their Apple TV boxes too). However it's loss means one less Mac that has FireWire.


Steve said he doesn't want to produce "Cheap Macs" in the conference call yesterday and he has also said "all you need is USB" too. Just remember this isn't "Apple Computers" it's "Steve Jobs Computers" and Steve does whatever he wants too.


So the next lowest offering with FireWire is the White MacBook or if you can find one of the remaining FireWire Macbooks/MacBook Pros listed on Amazon and other retail Mac sites. They won't last long from what I hear.


On an Astro IIDC note, I have been reworking the rotation code in the LRGB Image Importing Alignment code (with Darryl Robertson's Help), which really didn't work like I wanted it too. So if you need to rotate LRGB images while assembling them, it doesn't work real well yet. Scaling works fine though.


HTH..


Milton J. Aupperle