From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: August 28, 2009 9:42:37 PM MDT

To: macastronomer@yahoogroups.com

Cc: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re:Snow Leopard & Mac Astro Apps

Thank you all for the feedback. I've installed Snow Leopard on our Imac and my 2 year old MacBook Pro. No glaring issues as of yet. It does feel markedly snappier.

Alan

On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:34 PM, rmegna54 wrote:

I've been sorta underwater with travel and business stuff, but I poked my head up long enough to sign for my copy of Snow Leopard when it was delivered by FEDEX today. I've installed it on my iMac (Core2Duo) and ran some astronomy apps. Here are some quick notes:

When installing, make sure you click on the "Options" button before beginning the install. Oddly, X11 is a default install, but Rosetta is not. The default also installs a bunch of languages you'll never use.

Once you hit install, there is nothing else to do until it finishes - unlike Windows, which always seems to want your attention during the install process. When it was over, I got back about 7 gigs of disk space.

The first thing you'll notice when the system reboots into 10.6 is the speed and responsiveness of the user interface. Now, OSX is not only fluid, it is FAST.

I ran TheSkyX SAE, Nebulosity, EquinoX, Keith's Image Stacker and Photoshope CS3 and they appear to run ok (I want to emphasize that minimal real testing took place). TheSkyX has a noncritical graphic display of data from TPoint that is partially corrupted, but otherwise it seemed to be working fine.

I also ran Parallels 4, using the system installed in Boot Camp (even as a MacAstronomer I occasionally use Windows software to get stuff done). No observed problems, and even it seemed a bit snappier.

In short, Snow Leopard just took the world's best OS and made it even better.

Ralph