From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 21, 2011 9:18:40 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro IIDC under Lion


Hi Chris;


On 21-Jul-11, at 6:51 AM, ChrisB wrote:


Hi Milton


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


I noticed that Lion is a bit of a hog for system resources. Considering it can't run PowerPC, it's bloated up again in size on disk and requires even more system resources to dot he same basic tasks.


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


Except for all the Rosetta apps that I need for development or use because their are know Intel Mac equivalent.


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


I have read about MacBook Air prototypes using some form of a custom ARM processor.


And to Apple it makes perfect sense.


1) Reduced cost so they can fatten the bottom line even more.


2) Reduced development costs as they only need to support one chip set  or processor.


3) Remove the ability to put OSX on non Apple PCs (lots of web sites on running OS X on generic Windows PC), which fattens their bottom line.


4) Publish no information on their Processor so that people can't hack it or work with it at a low level.


5) Simplify the Os so you can only do what they want (no peripherals except Wireless, no conventional ports like FireWire 3200 / USB 3 / Giga E  / ESata etc.). Case in point, none of the Mac Minis have an optical drive anymore.


6) Force everyone to run the operating system Apples wants, only sell it through their store front (for their "measly" 30% cut) and only do what they want to do so they can lock the platform down.


You have to remember Steve considers himself basically a pauper with that measly $80+ billion in cash they have on hand - he wants more. God forbid Apple could declare maybe a dividend for their ShareHolders?


Time will tell.


It will. But my 25+ years of Mac development experience has taught me that Apple changes the entire architecture after about 4 to 7 years and throws the baby out with the bath water. it's been 5+ years without a major Hardware change (6502 to 68K to PowerPC 60x to PowerPC Gx then X86 and then ARM) or Software change (Mac Os pre 7 then Mac OS 9  then Carbon then Cocoa then iOS). We are overdue so that All developers will be forced to re-write our code from scratch again - rather than adding new features - we re-encode the wheel once again with some new Apple API so they don't have to fix the old Apple API.


TTYL..


Milton Aupperle



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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