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Old 12-24-2007, 09:19 PM   #1
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Trade with an Apple?

I dont know if this is the proper place for this thread, but is anyone using an apple computer to trade?

I havent done much research yet, so I dont know if the different trading platforms will even operate through an apple setup...

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Old 12-25-2007, 01:20 PM   #2

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Re: Trade with an Apple?

I think our moderator TinGull uses an Apple for trading. Might want to contact him for info.
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Old 12-25-2007, 01:29 PM   #3

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Re: Trade with an Apple?

I use an apple laptop when i am on the road. Thing is that none of my trusted aps for trading work on the mac side. So what I did is install parallels. This way you can run windows and mac os at the same time. When I am trading I just flip over to the windows side and it runs everything great. Just need to make sure you have intel proc, and ma out as much ram as you can.
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Re: Trade with an Apple?

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I use an apple laptop when i am on the road. Thing is that none of my trusted aps for trading work on the mac side. So what I did is install parallels. This way you can run windows and mac os at the same time. When I am trading I just flip over to the windows side and it runs everything great. Just need to make sure you have intel proc, and ma out as much ram as you can.
Ditto. Run my mac book pro with parallels. Not a multi screen workstation, but in an airport or hotel it runs everything I need to get by.
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Re: Trade with an Apple?

Investor/RT runs on Macintosh 9.x and OS X.

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Old 12-27-2007, 08:08 PM   #6
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Re: Trade with an Apple?

I am not a computer guru, but I do have a mac notebook.
Would "trading" through an apple setup be slower, or worse in any way? (when running the parallel setup)

I am looking to buy a desktop setup, and I would love to go with a apple setup if it is on equal footing with a pc setup.
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Old 12-27-2007, 09:10 PM   #7

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Re: Trade with an Apple?

If you are using on of the new mac's you will have more then enough juice to run parallels(just make sure you get enough ram in it). My macbook pro with windows on it runs equal if not better then my pc.
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MacBook Pro laptop running Windows XP using bootcamp. Hardly ever boot MacOS. It is a windows "PC" so everything that runs on windows runs.

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