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With all due respect to those who are enamoured with the their latest
super-duper pc's with blinding RAM speeds and deafening processors. I am a
full time professional trader. I trade short (intra-day), medium and long
term. I run esignal 7.1, metastock pro, excel, leoweb, browser and email
simultaneously. In the background I have zonealarm in addition to the usual
junk that came with the pc.
And wait for it....
I am using my January 1998 NEC 233 PII. I have upgraded to win98SE. I have
upgraded to 192meg of ram from 64 and I have 4 monitors connected to an
Appian card. I run my machine almost 24hrs, 5 days a week. Sure, sometimes
I get the blue screen of death but compared to what can usually go wrong
during the average trading day....what's the big deal?
My point?
The PC or what ever tools you use to trade has very little bearing on the
end result. Unless of course you insist on running video games or streaming
live video from your favorite porn site. Then, of course, you should have a
good pc. <g>
I realise my comments will upset many. If you must flame me in response;
please do so privately to avoid cluttering this excellent RT group.
Enjoy the holidays,
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobsKC" <bobskc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Interesting info about XP
> I haven't gone to the link but I know that Win 2000 Pro is the first
> windows system that I feel is actually a decent OS. It's based on NT
> technology and it is nearly crash free and reliable. As to hardware, I
> find an excuse to buy new machines every two years. I buy all my machines
> without operating systems and load my own. (I run linux on some
> boxes). Today, you need a processor in the 2ghz range, at least 256mb
mem,
> a video card with *its own memory* and plenty of it, an ethernet card and
a
> few other enhancements. Boxes are cheap as hell ... memory is nearly free
> and 1gb wouldn't be too much if your mother board will handle it. Old
> people can have advantages but old computers, (2 years) are a real
> problem. They got cheap but they get outdated fast ref new programs and
> systems.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> At 04:19 PM 12/5/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >Thanx for the link.
> >
> >And I'm not surprised. I saw this coming years ago. It is just one of
> >the many reasons I am reluctant to upgrade. I change/upgrade operating
> >systems and critical applications software when, and ONLY when, I
> >absolutely have to.
> >
> >Michael
> >-----------------------------------------
> >
> >On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:59:09 -0800, ztrader <ztrader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >For those of you thinking about the choice between Win2000 and XP,
> > >take a look at http://www.futurepower.net/microsoft.htm. Gives a nice
> > >overview of some important issues.
> > >
> > >ztrader
> > >
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