New iMac

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New iMac

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I am looking at a new computer and jumping to Mac for several reasons. It appeared older ST versions had some issues with the mac OS. Is this still the case?

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Re: New iMac

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torsinadoc wrote:I am looking at a new computer and jumping to Mac for several reasons. It appeared older ST versions had some issues with the mac OS. Is this still the case?

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Alan
Hi Alan,

The MacOSX version *should* be stable (it is on all the machines I've tried it on), but one user in particular seems to run into the odd crash.
The MacOSX version is 32-bit only, putting a constraint on the memory that can be adressed/used, so very big images (>12MP) are a bit of a problem.

1.4 (after 1.3.5 is declared stable for production) should see 64-bit support.
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Re: New iMac

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Ok. Thanks for all the work you do.
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