Charles Wilkes

Thanks to everyone who has been of such help to me in finding a way to run
MT4 on my new IMac. After studying the professional version of Wine from
CodeWeavers which they now call CrossOver, I have ordered it based on their
report that it does work, and have also ordered a CD to be sent to me with
it for a cost of $69.95 plus $10.00 for the CD, and the cost of shipping via
DHL. Their report showed:
MetaTrader 4<http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2157>
Metaquotes Honorable Mention
reporting that it has been tested, and does work. It was also given a
Silver medal in advocacy rank, but don't know what all that means. Since
it can be returned with I think 60 days if it doesn't work in my
application, I will test it thoroughly, and report back here what I was able
to discover.

Since I am retired from IBM Research after having spent years in promoting
and supporting the IBM PC from it's earliest days (I even spent six years in
Paris getting the then new IBM PC announced in Europe), you may wonder why I
am now converting to a Mac. First of all, IBM sold it's PC business to
Lenovo in China, and is no longer in the Personal Computer business. Even
the operating systems developed by IBM -- PC Dos, and OS2 for the PC, are no
longer IBM products, with DOS turned over to Microsoft as MS-DOS, and OS2
being effectively abandoned long ago.

Certainly the early Macs were not very good, but with the adoption of the
Intel dual core processors for all new Macs, this machine suddenly came
alive -- in my eyes anyway. And then Microsoft hasn't done so well with PC
operating systems either, although while Vista is a space and performance
hog, with the latest PC hardware, I do like it, and have used it since first
availability. But the Mac performs much better, which is understandable
since Apple has designed both their hardware and software together with full
integration only possible when both are done by the same company. In the
PC world, Microsoft does the operating system and many hardware
manufacturers do the hardware, with obviously little coordination between
them.

When my son brought his MacBookPro with him on his latest visit on the
occasion of my 82nd birthday (he lives in Norfolk, VA and I live in San
Jose, CA), he was able to show me how much better his computer ran compared
to my Vista Ultimate running on the fastest PC I could buy not long
earlier. The wait times I endure compared with the apparently
instantaneous responses he was getting really turned me around. So when be
bought me an IMAC on the way to the airport for his return, I was really
turned on to the Mac, and decided to see if I could make it the workhorse of
my computing activities -- at least in my home, as my Mac is not a laptop.


I could run PC code on my Mac several ways, including dual boot
and emulation, but wanted to run my key PC programs unobtainable in true Mac
code, and certainly don't want to have to reboot every time I change from a
PC application to a Mac application -- which in my case looks like it will
be everything I do on true Mac applications (mostly email and word
processing), with only MT4 running PC code. So with help from members of
this group, I was able to discover Wine from CodeWeavers which allows me to
execute some PC code at least including as I show above MT4 as a true Mac
application not running under any PC operating system.

Incidentally my IMac was upgraded in the store it was bought from (Fry's
Electronics) to increase main memory from 2 GB to 4 GB. The IMac has all
the computer itself mounted in the back side of a 20 inch monitor, so the
only wires are to the keyboard (into which the mouse is plugged like it
should have been done on PCs), and in my case to an external 400 GB ESATA
hard drive for backups, and a 2nd monitor which is a 19" Viewsonic which I
like to use while trading Forex.

Charles Wilkes




Sun Tzu said:
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum.
When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of
timing.