Trade with an Apple?

[btfox]

I used trendsoft in the 90's and found them to be honest and helpful. I moved on when I began with live data. They do have a couple new products now, including a live data feed, if you are interested in looking at them...

http://www.trendsoft.com/

[timokrates]

I also think about switching and buying an apple.

What keeps me a bit away from the imac at the moment is the gradient issue specially the 20" version has. I tested it in the store and it was true. If you for example have a grey desktop background, the colour is darker in the upper left than in the bottom right corner.

At the moment I think about a mac mini with a nice eizo display. BTW, is it easy to use two displays with a mac mini or do you always need an adapter/switch?

Does someone have any experience with parallels and tradestation?

[fxjaykay]

	Quote:	timokrates
	I also think about switching and buying an apple. What keeps me a bit away from the imac at the moment is the gradient issue specially the 20" version has. I tested it in the store and it was true. If you for example have a grey desktop background, the colour is darker in the upper left than in the bottom right corner. At the moment I think about a mac mini with a nice eizo display. BTW, is it easy to use two displays with a mac mini or do you always need an adapter/switch? Does someone have any experience with parallels and tradestation?

The Mac Mini is not really designed to be a workhorse. I have one for just surfing/music/watching movies, but I wouldn't use it for trading unless I had to. A Mac or PC with better specs (incl a graphics card with dedicated memory, rather than integrated graphics borrowing from the RAM capacity) would be commendable.

All trading platforms that I have tested on Xp on Parallels have worked just fine. I have not tried Tradestation, but from what I've heard, that one works as well. If you Google on "parallels tradestation" you'll find some on that subject. Anyhow - unless the Mac is powerful enough with enough RAM, you could have performance issues.

Best,

fxjaykay

[timokrates]

	Quote:	fxjaykay
	The Mac Mini is not really designed to be a workhorse. I have one for just surfing/music/watching movies, but I wouldn't use it for trading unless I had to. A Mac or PC with better specs (incl a graphics card with dedicated memory, rather than integrated graphics borrowing from the RAM capacity) would be commendable. All trading platforms that I have tested on Xp on Parallels have worked just fine. I have not tried Tradestation, but from what I've heard, that one works as well. If you Google on "parallels tradestation" you'll find some on that subject. Anyhow - unless the Mac is powerful enough with enough RAM, you could have performance issues. Best, fxjaykay

Thanks fxjaykay,

good to know. Then, the imac remains, mac pro is a bit too expensive.
I think 2 gig ram should be minimum.

Still thinking if it's good to have an emulated (Parallels) trading software.

[johnnycakes78704]

There is another plus which no one has mentioned yet which is the lack of viruses for Mac's. No need for antivirus or anti-spyware so the computer does run quicker. If you are going to run parallels, you could do so and dedicate the windows side to just trading and install a firewall to prevent hacking. So long as you don't peruse some of the less scrupulous sites or download email attachments on the windows side, antivirus, to me at least, is not necessary.

So long as you can maintain strict discipline with your browsing habits you can get away with alot less.

If you so desire, the mac mini may work. It can be configured from Apple to come with 2GB of RAM. If you are only running trading software at the times you are trading and not applications that hog the memory, it should be more than adequate. I've been quite surprised with what my mini can do (photoshop and the like)