© the os/2 guy ©

Apple's stock price is going up, up, up into the $186 range - putting
its market cap ($161 Billion) above IBM ($156.45 Billion) for the
first time in history.

Moving to the Mac was the best decision I've made in years. I don't
regret one dollar I've spent on Mac hardware or software.

Look for the release of Leopard on Friday, 6PM. Leopard is currently
sitting at the number one and two spots on Amazon's Software
Bestseller list (the Family Pack comes in second to the single
license). Mac users a 'gaga' over this amazing new operating system!

Dr. Tim Martin, The OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com

bob

How did you go from OS/2 to Mac? I've looked at Leopard along with
VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop, and I do not see a migration. I
have written many applications in REXX, and a sudden move is not really
possible. Your input would be appreciated.

Thanks.

© the os/2 guy ©

I walked into the Apple store one afternoon and stood before an iMac.
Every machine in the Apple store is fully equipped and loaded with
applications. I wondered if I could make the transition. I had such
a disjointed view of the Mac and OSX. But after twenty minutes of
playing with the machine I knew it was going to happen. It was so
much like OS/2: object oriented, solid as a rock, applications were
easier to install and remove, everything on it just worked. The
screen and everything graphical was mesmerizing, like no screen I had
ever seen under OS/2. I left after thirty minutes and went to lunch.
I hurried through lunch because I wanted one of those machines. I
went back and had a machine "CTO'd" or "Configured To Order". I
loaded it with as much Ram as possible (3 gig at the time) and the
largest hard drive they offered (500Gig) then put it on my credit card
and figured it would be weeks before it was delivered. It came
FedExpress two days later. And it was cheaper then each one of my
Thinkpads by several hundred dollars.

There was no CPU tower, just a 20" display with all the hardware
inside. It was probably less than 2" thick. It took five minutes to
setup, I plugged in my Ethernet cable and OSX Tiger was a breeze to
sign on to. Suddenly I was online and copying data to DVDs, viewing
pictures, watching movies, surfing the 'Net with FireFox, downloading
files, installing programs so easily I wasn't sure they were actually
installed. I copied over several CDs of music, plugged in the
speakers I used with z! and iTunes began pumping out amazing sound. I
played around and was suddenly having articles on web pages being read
to me so well that I could understand every word, just like a real
person speaking and I could change the voices from male to female to
child. I had Office for the Mac and iWorks and iLife. What about
scripting and automating? I found AppleScript and "The Automator"
built into OSX. Mail was unbelievably easy to setup. I have Gmail,
Yahoo and several other free accounts - all generating tons of spam
yet once redirected to my Mac.com account, through Apple's servers,
all the spam disappeared. To this day I see maybe one or two pieces
of spam a day compared to 200 under OS/2 and I've set up no spam
filters wwhich are ably available in Mail.

You simply have to try it to believe it. Go into Apple and step up to
any of the machines and just begin to play. Apple has so many video
tutorials on everything imaginable that if you are stumped on
anything, just go online and watch the video presentation. They are
smart, direct, don't talk down to you or over your had and you "get
it" quickly.

I felt guilty for abandoning OS/2 so I signed on with Parallels to
beta test OS/2. They bent over backwards to help me because they
wanted my experience with OS/2. Soon I had OS/2 Warp 4.52 installed
in a virtual window and it ran as solid as it did on a stand alone
operating system. That was a great success and comforting to know I
could turn to OS/2 whenever but once the project was a success I
couldn't find a reason to go back to OS/2.

And Apple kept coming out with better more powerful machines and
cheaper. Out came the 24" iMac and the 12" MacBook. I put my "old"
iMac (six months old) on eBay and sold it losing maybe a hundred
dollars on the deal. I saw it as a $100 rental fee for six months.
When I started the new iMac it asked if I wanted to transfer my Mac
files, connected a firewire cable and twenty minutes later everything
from the old iMac was on the new iMac. The guy who bought my old
iMac was upgrading from a G4 PPC Mac and he still emails me to this
day with thanks and astonishment at how much he loves his new iMac.
The MacBook blew me away. I had a T30, T40 and a T41 - all with OS/2
on them and struggled to get OS/2 to work and even then, some things
just didn't work. The MacBook was so powerful I put the Thinkpads
away. If I walked by an Internet Cafe with free Wifi I was instantly
connected. If I took the Thinkpad it was a hit or miss kind of thing
and oftentimes I felt stupid because the Thinkpad just refused to
connect. When you wtch a movie in public on the MacBook or the iPhone
people gather around you amazed at the clarity and beauty of the
motion picture.

But the iMac and the MacBook weren't enough. I wanted serious power
for once. And Apple released the 3GHz Mac Pro that could be beefed up
to 16Gig of RAM, 4Terabytes of hard disk space, three SuperDrives and
you could add a 30" HD Apple Cinema display.

And that's what I play with today. Everything syncs and soon, with
Leopard, everything will sync and back itself up via WiFi which runs
throughout my home from the built-in Airport Extreme in my Mac Pro.
You know how difficult and time consuming it is to setup a network and
to get adjoining computers to talk to each other. Well, everything
just worked and I realized, "Oh my Gawd, I'm networked to everything!"

Three months after owning my first iMac I dreaded installing my HP
Color LaserJet printer. It was the last hardware I had purchased for
OS/2 and I was so proud that it actually worked under OS/2. But I
finally had to print out billings and other do***ents. I went to HP
looking for a special Mac driver because it would surely need one but
nothing was there. I went to the Mac forums and asked. "Just plug it
in via USB cable and see what happens..." so I did. Nothing
happened. No message popped up to say "New Hardware Found" like it
does under Windows and it was always hit or miss with OS/2 so I hit
the print button and two seconds later the printer responded and has
been pumping out beautiful color ever since.

I bought three internal SuperDrives because I feared one SuperDrive
would go out on me like they did on my ThinkPads and I'd been without
a DVDRW/CDRW Rom drive. To my utter surprise I can use all three at
the very same time! I can burn two DVDs and watch a DVD movie and now
I have an external LaCie slim drive added because it was just sitting
around doing nothing.

I think the funniest thing was the SuperDrive in the iMac. There is
no button to eject a CD or DVD and the first time I slipped a DVD into
the perpendicular side slot I had no idea how to get it out. I was so
frustrated that I went into the Mac forums ranting like a banshee only
to be told by ten different people that there are as many as 15 ways
to eject a disk. Duh... It was so easy I was truly embarrassed!

A one terabyte external Lacie hard drive arrived today. I don't need
another terabyte and 500 gigs would have been plenty. I will
partition it up into four sections: one for the MacBook, one for the
iMac, one for the Mac Pro and one for auto-backups. Leopard will be
installed on all three machines and will automatically send any files
that are added or updated via WiFi to the external hard drive. And if
I need a file I deleted on any one of the machines I can retrieve it
via WiFi and bring it back.

I'm sure I sound like an Apple fanatic (aka FanBoy) and I proudly
admit that I am devoted to OSX and Apple. It's because they are what
we all dreamed IBM and OS/2 would be.

Whatever you do under OS/2 you can do under OSX and you can probably
do it faster, easier and better. Every personal friend I have now
owns a Mac. We iChat constantly, send each other files, log on to
each others computers, make personalized screen "how to" videos and
some of us live ad breath Macs. I always have my iPhone (it syncs
automatically with my mail accounts and with all of my Mac machines at
home when placed in the iPhone dock) and often carry my BlackBook to
give quick presentations (KeyNote is so beyond PowerPoint!) and use
the iMac in my bedroom and the Mac Pro in the living room.

You want to fall in love with computing again - buy a Mac! :-)

Dr. Tim Martin, The OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com

riccardo rubini

Don't feed this troll, Bob. This moron is around here just to piss
eComstations and OS/2 users off. He probably uses Windows w/ OSX in VMWare
or has leeched an hackintosh ISO off of some tracker...

Poor thing, he feels lonely and has to tell the word how smarter and
misunderstood he is. Everyone and his sister believes he's a dork and he is
full aware of that... So he's around just to tick people off. It has to be
disgusting being Timmy the chicken.

Plonk him like we all did and you won't see anymore all this Apple spam crap
in OS/2 newsgroups.

Riccardo

stan goodman

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 03:56, © The OS/2 Guy ©


This is very good stuff! Rising occasionally to the level of poetry, it
is both entertaining and educational.

If you read it right, it's quite romantic, ***y, even nearly
****ographic at some points.

And best of all, one learns that the very same speakers that work with
z! (an application that "Dr" Martin has denounced here in the past, but
nevertheless used back in his OS/2 phase) also work with his iMac,
albeit with the addition of amazing sound.

--
Stan Goodman, The Old Guy
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

s.subzero

FYI- IBM has not tried to put any of their products into a person's
home in years, and left the PC market long ago. Saying Apple is worth
more than IBM is like saying Sony is worth more than Starbucks.
There's no comparison as their products don't really overlap. IBM
does high-end server stuff, Apple does iPods. Difference.