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Do you use a Mac?
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Apparently you missed it.The world in general, WS in particular, and every market maker in existence today.... is out to get Quanto.Whats the freedom angle?
Apparently you missed it.The world in general, WS in particular, and every market maker in existence today.... is out to get Quanto.
Aaah I see.
Makes sense now.
Thanks mate.
What are the advantages of a Pro vs an Air? Do I need the Pro?
do I need the Apple chip?
The pro is more powerful and bigger. There is a 15 inch air. Intel chips are no longer available so all the chips are Apple silicon.
JFYI, Apple "silicon" is based on ARM which is even more vulnerable and exploitable than AMD/Intel x86/64. Arm licenses its designs to just about anyone, and with the sheer number of people who have access to this information, allows it to be infinitely more vulnerable to attack on a hardware level. Apple software has proven to be pretty resilient, but only on the same level and reasoning as Linux, the underlying kernel isn't very consumer friendly (userland is BSD UNIX, but not the kernel). Windows as a software is infinitely more exploitable than GNU/Linux and macOS, but Arm hardware is infinitely more exploitable than x86. Thus it doesn't matter if you have a mac, you are right up there on the easy to hit list.
Over the years I’ve had hard drive failures, WiFi adapters that quit once a week, displays stop working, etc. All of this has been on PCs while people with Mac’s say the hardware performs flawlessly. That’s what I’m interested in. I’m guessing that the 70:30 is due to the price difference and not user experience. It’s why most people have android phones instead of iPhones, and I highly prefer iPhones myself. If a virtual machine will solve my trading platform compatibility hurdle I think I’m gonna switch. The only thing holding me back is available screen size. I use my laptop most of the time without an external monitor and I’ve gotten used to the 17” screen. The extra real estate is worth more than I realized. I’m gonna have to buy a Mac and use it side by side with the PC to really find I guess.
All my windoze machines are stable. Only those that are overclocked to 5Ghz show issues
Over the years I’ve had hard drive failures, WiFi adapters that quit once a week, displays stop working, etc. All of this has been on PCs while people with Mac’s say the hardware performs flawlessly. That’s what I’m interested in. I’m guessing that the 70:30 is due to the price difference and not user experience. It’s why most people have android phones instead of iPhones, and I highly prefer iPhones myself. If a virtual machine will solve my trading platform compatibility hurdle I think I’m gonna switch. The only thing holding me back is available screen size. I use my laptop most of the time without an external monitor and I’ve gotten used to the 17” screen. The extra real estate is worth more than I realized. I’m gonna have to buy a Mac and use it side by side with the PC to really find I guess.
I'm with you on an iphone, but when it comes to work, no contest. I recently got a brand new Macbook air, looks stylish of course. But first you've the clunky adapters you need before you can actually plug anything into it, then the wifi signal is the weakest I've ever come across and drops out in places my PC had no problems with, then there's the user experience designed around everything looking great but being unfunctional... I could go on.
My Thinkpad is a beast, never lets me down. It looks ugly, but the main thing - it always works. PCs are non-standardised so there's a huge variety of experiences from flawless to terrible; with a Mac it's standardised, but I'd argue that standard is less than the best of PCs - my 2ps worth!
I’m looking at buying a pre-owned machine to see if I can tolerate learning to navigate the Mac OS without going mad, so an I7/I9 is still an option for me. After looking around last night it seems that if I want more than 16g of ram I’ll need to get a Pro. So the Intel vs Mac processor option is the variable I’m still considering.The pro is more powerful and bigger. There is a 15 inch air. Intel chips are no longer available so all the chips are Apple silicon.
So the Intel vs Mac processor option is the variable I’m still considering.
I had a top spec Intel Mac Pro for 3 years from work, it had almost constant fan on, horrible. I left that job and bought a Mac air for personal use. ARM Mac Airs are fanless and silent. Im not sure if the ARM Pros are fanless, but even if they have fans they probably not going to be anywhere near as hot as Intel Pros.
Unless you have good reason for an Intel mac like you need need to run Windows VM or some other specific software, i would not touch an Intel Mac these days.
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