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Al,
For almost a year I have run AB realtime with eSignal on a 1.5GB iMac
20" 2GHz core duo with Windows XP personal and Parallels. I have an
additional monitor also --17" std and 20" widescreen match pixel
density to the 20" iMac. I would not go with a 17" iMac for a number
of reasons. Everything runs like a dream. I have run it since
Parallels first came out. Using coherence mode, AB acts like it is a
native OS X app (except the UI is not very Mac like of course). I do
not run any Windows app if there is an equivalent on OS X app --to
keep the machine clean of "malware". I tried out WINE but got
discouraged very quickly with the interface and lack of support for
so many apps. I do not need to waste my time trying to save a little
money. The productivity is worth more to me. I also want to be
able to run anything I need under Windows in the future.
If I had to do it over again, I would do the exact same thing!
Disclosure: Running Macs since 1984. I have several Macs and no PCs
(well I guess Microsoft would claim that I have a PC now). I had a
real W98 PC once for stock programs, but it died and I refused to get
another one --the experience was less than satisfactory.
Dennis
On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Al Venosa wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Lately, I've been seriously giving thought to the idea of switching
> to an Apple iMAC for various reasons (mostly getting tired of
> crashes, viruses, spam, etc., etc.). Surely, there are some AB users
> out there who are MAC users, and I was wondering how well AB works
> with a MAC using the Intel Core 2 Duo chip and operating under
> Parallels virtualization software. Are there any downsides to the
> iMAC for trading with AB and TWS compared to the PC? I know it uses
> Intel's 2.16-GHz T7400 Core 2 Duo chip with 4 Mb L2 cache and a 667
> MHz front side bus, which isn't as fast as the newer E6600 or E6700
> chips, I suspect that is not a problem in terms of running fast
> optimizations and enabling non-delayed automated trading? I'd
> appreciate any comments from Mac users. Thanks a lot.
>
> Al Venosa
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