[Tasuki]

Gentlemen, your technical expertise is overwhelming my circuits. Let me ask a couple of simple questions:
Let's say I have tradestation. Or Ninjatrader. Or both. And I want to run them on a Mac.
1) Is this possible?
2) Are the steps necessary very complex? If not, would someone please explain what "interface" software you need?
Thanks, Tasuki

[jonbig04]

I'm sure there's a million ways to do it. I don't know which is BEST. But here's how I do it. I bought a program called parallels for my mac. I installed that program, which when done, asks you to insert the windows operating systems CD (anyone will do nothing special). Then when its done doing it's thing, all you have to do is click the parallels icon and a screen pops up with windows in it. That's it.

[Tasuki]

jonbig,
Cheeseandcrackers that sounds almost too easy. Thanks for the info.
Tasuki
p.s. I remember a few years ago trying to run Windows on a Mac. I worked in a molecular biology lab, and we had the very best techs available. Notwithstanding, the Mac crashed CONSTANTLY when using Windows. From what I've gleaned from the preceeding conversation, Macs (and their interface with Windows) must have made some giant leaps forward. Correct? From what you and Tresor have been saying, your Macs don't ever crash when using Windows? I'd give my eyeteeth to see tradestation running on a Mac.

[kingtodd]

After buying, building, upgrading, computers, I have moved to all Dell. If you get the XPS series, there is 24 hour tech support, if it breaks they come to your place to fix it for one year, which you could extend, and the best feature is the microsoft program. NO KEYS. You can reinstall XP as many times as you like, add more back up hard drives. Still stuck on XP. SAme for Vista. Dell sells the XPS 630i with XP installed. Just make sure you get the XP disk with the delivery. If you want to get cheap, go the dell outlet. Still the same service. I have a 30", 25" and two 20 inch Samsung monitors with no problems. on one system. dual Nvidia 8800gt. I use the core extreme 3000 on one and the core 2 q6600 on the other. I also use the WD raptor as the primary hard drive and a 1 terrabite slave. (all with microsoft XP installed) I tried mirroring two identicle drives as a safety so if one hard drive goes the other take over, but found it slowed things down.

A friend of mind who assembles system for big comanies advised me to go to Dell or another company

These companies that sell trading computers are just some guys building them in a room somewhere and you pay the markup. Dell has tried and tested a system.

I tell you after having a 30 inch main screen, you can never turn back 2048 x 1536 res.
Good luck

[86834]

www.tradingcomputers.com - where i got mine from