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Quote from [Proximo]:

Yes that's the trend I used to work at ATI/AMD.

When's this new chip coming out?
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Which chip? If you're asking about the Intel i7, Nov 17 seems to be the date. It's going to be "relatively expensive", especially the motherboards and RAM that work with it -- maybe $3k for a top-end system, and $1k for just the minimum parts to upgrade a core 2. It requires a new socket, as well as specially spec'd (low voltage) DDR3 so that the chip doesn't burn out as it would with high-voltage DDR2 for Core 2's/Opterons.
 
Quote from bespoke:

what's your point?
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His point was that people traded 5-10 years ago too and some of them made money without a Cray's computing power. :)
 
Quote from sellingrich:

I think he wanted you to know he likes to take his laptop with him when he takes a dump.
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Nobody wants to get dingleberries on the function keys.
 
Quote from Euler:

Which chip? If you're asking about the Intel i7, Nov 17 seems to be the date. It's going to be "relatively expensive", especially the motherboards and RAM that work with it -- maybe $3k for a top-end system, and $1k for just the minimum parts to upgrade a core 2. It requires a new socket, as well as specially spec'd (low voltage) DDR3 so that the chip doesn't burn out as it would with high-voltage DDR2 for Core 2's/Opterons.
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I'm shocked Intel is finally coming out with a DDR3 board. I'll believe that when I see it. They are famous for having blazing everything except what you plug everything into. For them to make that Skulltrail a DDR2 board is as stupid as can be. Why do we buy Intel chips and Asus boards? Because Intel has idiots working there who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. It's like selling Chevy Corvette's with Yugo engines.
 
Most of the laptops I have experienced get real hot and eventually crash. I had a dell laptop before which required 2 motherboards in a year.

Do you really trust a laptop? My laptop also freezes from time to time requiring a reboot.

If you are trading seriously, then you need a desktop...maybe not the highest end, but a desktop that is generally faster and wont be prone to crashes like laptops.


Quote from GermanTrader:

I trade on a laptop. Really. I don't use a hundred charts at once to trade. My system is established and integrated. Neither my trading platform, charts nor analysis tools take up much CPU, Ram or HDD space, so I don't need a super machine. Actually, I only use off-the-shelf laptops, albeit not the clearance or bargain models.

When the ocassion arises to work on my systems, then I go to the desktop. But for daily trading, I would never consider being bound to my desk. If I had to miss a trade in favor of taking a vacation, flying, reading on the beach or even taking a dump, I would be disappointed. So I don't have to make that choice.

I admire the looks of those with roomfulls of monitors, multiple PCs, T-1 lines and cockpit-like workstations. But I don't need them. I'd rather deck out a room like that to play Flight Simulator.
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Quote from nitro:

Whatever happened to the integrated CPU and GPU chips from INTC?
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I heard its in the i9. Also heard that INTC has a 6-core CPU in the works... maybe they decided that 2 more cores was better than integrated video?
 
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