My early Christmas computer present! Mac Users Group · John Favalessa · ... · 6 · 124 · 0

astrograndpa 13.14
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Recently bought the Mac Studio M2 Ultra, 64 GB memory, 2 TB SSD, 24 core CPU, 60 core GPU.  Sonoma 14.1.2  (yeah I'm blessed to be able to afford the $4,400 for the computer and the $1,454 for the Apple Studio 27" display.  I purchased from B&H using their credit card which refunds the full sales tax.)  

I use APP for integration and Pixinsight for processing.  APP has an Apple silicon version, Pix does not.  Both work perfectly.  This thing is a beast and a half!  I recently stacked 300+ subs from my 6200MC; each sub 122 MBs.  The Mac did not struggle but did get hot...I put my lens dust blower fan on it 😂.  Normal use this thing does not get hot, stays cool.   All and all I am so impressed by the speed of this beast of a computer.  -john
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wsg 11.24
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John are you saying you can't use Pixinsight on you Mac?
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frankz 3.01
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You can, he’s just saying it’s not optimized for Apple silicon (yet). Still, it runs quite fast on Mx Macs.
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wsg 11.24
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Right, PI can't be expected to be instantaneously usable with every hardware iteration. My M1 runs everything I use for AP flawlessly, if I update properly.

scott
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astrograndpa 13.14
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John are you saying you can't use Pixinsight on you Mac?

Works perfectly I believe runs through Rosetta .  They just haven't made a version of Pix that is native to Apple silicon.
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NorskeDude 1.81
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I also bought an early Christmas present. I replaced my 2018 15" 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core I9 32 GB 1Tb MacBook Pro with  the 16" M3 Max MacBook Pro.
  • Apple M3 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
  • 16-inch Liquid Retina XDR display²
  • 2TB SSD storage
  • 64GB unified memory

I certainly isn't as fast as you Mac Studio M2 Ultra. I haven't had a desktop computer for close to 2 decades.
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Todd
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Alluminator 1.20
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I also just bought the Mac Studio, along with a C14 to accompany my C11.  And I have just built an observatory.

looking forward to 2024
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