From: "ChrisB" <chboss@hispeed.ch>

Date: July 21, 2011 6:51:28 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Astro IIDC under Lion

Hi Milton

Sounds excellent, I will have to upgrade my macbook with more memory since 2GB is the minimum for Lion...

Other than that the system works really well, so no software I use was broken during the upgrade.

I am not sure that Apple will really use their own processors on desktop and laptop computers, there is simply no benefit for them.

Time will tell.

regards

Chris

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Chris;

On 20-Jul-11, at 11:42 AM, ChrisB wrote:

Hi all

Good news I just tested the latest Astro IIDC release under Lion

without any obvious problems. :-)

Thanks for the confirmation. Purchasing Lion and get it installed on

my x86 Macs so I can begin formal testing is on my to do list now that

Apple has released.

And my "Brain Surgery" I did on the old Core Duo Max Mini x86

yesterday was a complete success. On Monday my 2 gighz Core 2 Duo

replacement chip finally arrived (waiting in Customs for a month due

to the Canada Post mail strike).

I checked an imaging source and a PG Dragonfly 2 camera and

processed an older Jupiter movie with good results. I used a basic

"Advanced Planetary" setting and the stacking result was better than

my old stack.

A big thank you to Milton the new version is lightning fast on my

older iMac when reprocessing the movie. :-D

Glad to hear it's working well for you.

The Bad part is that all those PowerPC / SSE3 optimizations are toast

going forward, as Apple will be dumping Intel processors and switching

to their own proprietary ARM processors in the future. That would also

pretty well kill off running Windows on a Mac too.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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