Anyone here heard about Shadow PC?
For those who have not heard of it, here is some stuff to read:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/blade-shadow-the-last-gaming-pc
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/3/17645752/shadow-cloud-pc-blade-release-date-us-price
Basically you pay a monthly fee to stream a high end game pc to your screen, you can access it with almost everything (a very crappy PC, smart tv, smartphone, iPad, android box, ...), and play games on the highest settings without the need to buy a very expensive gaming PC.
What seems to be the best advantages are: No need to buy and update an expensive game PC, they do it for you. You can access it anywhere from every device.
Now for my personal case, i use a game PC which desperately needs to be updated to handle the last new releases in my home theater, a dedicated trading PC and a PS4 console in my living room.
With Shadow i could replace all my devices with just this one service and 2 android boxes or 2 shadow ghost's (140$ each). 1 for my office to trade from, 1 in my home theater and i can install the Shadow app on my TV in the living room. So, no more expensive PC's/desktops to buy/update and run (power savings are huge as well).
The service isn't cheap, however in my case i would replace 2 computers and a PS4 console, so then it seems much more reasonable.
Now i am wondering, would it be possible to trade with a service like Shadow PC?
Wouldn't the latency kill me?
I have to stream the Shadow PC from their server to my screen, my screen has to communicate my actions/orders back to the Shadow servers and from there it will be send on through to the actual trading server/exchange. Shadow PC has a server fairly close to where i live (Brussels-Amsterdam) and it is also fairly close to Rithmic's nearest server (Amsterdam-Frankfurt).
One of the mayor downsides i can think of is the huge data consumption a setup like this would use.
What do you guy's think?
For those who have not heard of it, here is some stuff to read:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/blade-shadow-the-last-gaming-pc
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/3/17645752/shadow-cloud-pc-blade-release-date-us-price
Basically you pay a monthly fee to stream a high end game pc to your screen, you can access it with almost everything (a very crappy PC, smart tv, smartphone, iPad, android box, ...), and play games on the highest settings without the need to buy a very expensive gaming PC.
What seems to be the best advantages are: No need to buy and update an expensive game PC, they do it for you. You can access it anywhere from every device.
Now for my personal case, i use a game PC which desperately needs to be updated to handle the last new releases in my home theater, a dedicated trading PC and a PS4 console in my living room.
With Shadow i could replace all my devices with just this one service and 2 android boxes or 2 shadow ghost's (140$ each). 1 for my office to trade from, 1 in my home theater and i can install the Shadow app on my TV in the living room. So, no more expensive PC's/desktops to buy/update and run (power savings are huge as well).
The service isn't cheap, however in my case i would replace 2 computers and a PS4 console, so then it seems much more reasonable.
Now i am wondering, would it be possible to trade with a service like Shadow PC?
Wouldn't the latency kill me?
I have to stream the Shadow PC from their server to my screen, my screen has to communicate my actions/orders back to the Shadow servers and from there it will be send on through to the actual trading server/exchange. Shadow PC has a server fairly close to where i live (Brussels-Amsterdam) and it is also fairly close to Rithmic's nearest server (Amsterdam-Frankfurt).
One of the mayor downsides i can think of is the huge data consumption a setup like this would use.
What do you guy's think?
