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gozzlemack

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• Jan 16, 2012

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can anyone vouch for a good laptop for trading purposes?...reliability and mobility is important....am heading down the mac path although i hear there will be software compatibility issues there should be ways around this right?...or is it best to stick with windows?

 

safvan

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• Jan 17, 2012

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Mac or ThinkPad.

That is it.

 

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deadbroke

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• Jan 17, 2012

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gozzlemack said:

can anyone vouch for a good laptop for trading purposes?...reliability and mobility is important....am heading down the mac path although i hear there will be software compatibility issues there should be ways around this right?...or is it best to stick with windows?

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A spinner who loves you dearly is an excellent laptop candidate.

 

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rawrschach

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• Jan 17, 2012

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safvan said:

Mac or ThinkPad.

That is it.

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ditto


i have a mac, trade on virtualised windows 7. If I had a dedicated trading computer it'd be a Thinkpad T series

 

robster970

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• Jan 17, 2012

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On HP with i5, 6G RAM, 750G Disk running x_trader. Is fine and dandy.

 

safvan

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• Jan 17, 2012

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Well any lappy can work as long as you are profitable. Focus on the core..

 

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gozzlemack

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• Jan 17, 2012

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for sure...to stay focused on the core, solid infrastructure can only be positive though.