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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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| John are you saying you can't use Pixinsight on you Mac? |
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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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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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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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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.
I certainly isn't as fast as your Mac Studio M2 Ultra. I haven't had a desktop computer for close to 2 decades. CS Todd |
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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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I have a whole fleet of Macs running my systems. In the observatory are 3 Mac Minis of various ages -- the newest is an M2. There's also a rack-mounted Windows-10 machine which I had to buy to host the software for the Also Mini-Cyclope seeing monitor -- no macOS version available. For almost 5 years I had to run TheSkyX on Windows because my camera at the time (FLI Kepler 4040) had no Mac-native driver. Windows has absolutely nothing to recommend it I'm afraid and I was pleased, with the next camera (Moravian C5A-100M) that I could switch back to macOS. Since then I've transitioned to KStars/Ekos on macOS and that offers all the functionality that TSX lacks. Except it crashes from time to time. Apparently it's rock-solid on Linux. Back in the house I'm running PixInsight on a PowerBook M1max and it runs very well, and there's an old wine-cooler style Mac Pro on the other desk. I use Screen Sharing to check progress in the observatory and also to interact with Ekos as necessary (such as at 4am when I don't really want to walk the 100m or so, braving wild boars on the way) It all works great ! |
