Any other inputs please ??
I am beginner of TA, want to go with cheaper way first.
Save your money, get a used
Dell, two inexpensive dual monitor video cards (identical is the most trouble free-you don't want to mix drivers "driver conflicts"} toss in an inexpensive
SSD for the C: Drive. 4gb+ Ram
I just picked up 4 ea old Lenovo M-58p's on ebay ~ $50 ea. I tossed in Samsung 256gb SSD's to drive TV monitors at my summer house.
I prefer Samsung 256gb SSD's, as I use them in all my home systems and if I need a replacement drive I can cannibalize and image quickly. They are large enough to accommodate Operating system, my core programs, 100gb Google drive acct and 50gb Onedrive acct.
The Sandisk drives are cheap, work just fine for what you are doing, just use the spinny drive which comes with your used system for a D: Data Drive.
The M-58p's are small footprint and quiet. I am only listing as reference.
I also picked up two T3400's ~$75 ea., installed SSD's, video cards which I had in surplus. These I loaded up with spinny drives and using them as media servers/Network Storage.
Loaded
Windows10pre64bit on them all. July 29th each one will convert to authenticated licensed operating systems (i.e. "free").
All these systems run surprisingly well. VLC, Browsing, light office, and yes IB-TWS and MC-charting. For light use I can barely tell the difference between these and one of my primary i7 16gb system's. If you aren't tasking them, you don't need a lot of horsepower...
For what you need $200 or less should get you going.
My previous
comments Links to
WinstonTJ comments.
Also search ET member Scataphagos regarding inexpensive Dell system tips.
