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
