Sager notebooks

Quote from TMTrader:

The one critical thing that worries me about the Sager is it's heating problems. A friend of mine has one and when it's on for more than 4-6 hours it's reboots itself unless you shut it down for several (long) minutes and let it cool off.
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its probably out of warranty, however, he should contact Sager in Kalifornia, and have them do service on it. It should not be doing, as you say it does.

It shouldn't.
 
Quote from ArchAngel:


A "12 pound notebook" and "easy to pick up" shouldn't be used in the same sentence :)

However, you CAN pack a computer in less weight and an as easily transported package when you're talking about a 12 pound notebook that's already not especially useful as a "notebook" PC.

I did the road warrior thing carrying a "luggables" years ago and can't even imagine carrying something that big around anymore.

My personal preference is a Toshiba Portege R100 - it weighs only about 2 1/2 pounds, Centrino machine, built in wireless, up to a GB of RAM, less than an inch thick, easily fits in my briefcase, and is the ultimate in portability. If you really need a high rez screen when you're parked somewhere, toss an LCD panel into a PC bag - external monitor resolution goes up to 2048x1536.

A full blown (but very heavy) 3GHz P4 portable desktop like the Sager is a more raw horsepower package (at the expense of 5 times the weight), but how much raw CPU do you need for trading?
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good to hear from you again...now, I really appreciate your comments....

wow, 2.5lbs, huh...whewwwww.... that's heavy

hey, the 3.2Ghz 2GB 160GB HDD 7200 DVD/RW 54g wireless luggable can crunch numbers in Excell better than you can....:D :D :D

anyways, its in the multiple dimensional analysis that signal processing applications put upon the processor that counts. These DA (direct access) software applications connected to a MDVF (market data vendor feed) combine to produce some 30 or more active processes all vying for realtime processor and bandwidth access. Add to that your JTrader or other order entry and trades monitoring sub-screens, and you place some serious workstation like demands upon your processor/machines. Add to that one or two active IE/NSCP browser panels or instant messenger or speech recognition applications (squawk box apps, or talking room sessions) and you have your very definition of why such robustness is needed.

if your Toshiba does all that during trading hours, then hats off to you, and I will look in another direction for future sourcing of machines.
 
Quote from limitdown:
anyways, its in the multiple dimensional analysis that signal processing applications put upon the processor that counts. These DA (direct access) software applications connected to a MDVF (market data vendor feed) combine to produce some 30 or more active processes all vying for realtime processor and bandwidth access. Add to that your JTrader or other order entry and trades monitoring sub-screens, and you place some serious workstation like demands upon your processor/machines. Add to that one or two active IE/NSCP browser panels or instant messenger or speech recognition applications (squawk box apps, or talking room sessions) and you have your very definition of why such robustness is needed.

if your Toshiba does all that during trading hours, then hats off to you, and I will look in another direction for future sourcing of machines.
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Lots of power comes in small packages these days.

Don't know how extensive or big a CPU-sucker your "multidimensional signal processing/analysis" app is, but all the other normal trading applications combined don't pose a significant resource consumption - at least not for a 1 GHz P4M processor with 1 GB of RAM (especially when you consider that you can very easily run a sizable trading station on a mere 400 MHz P2 w/ 512 MB of RAM without ever maxing the CPU).

Of course, I'm admittedly not engaging in computing wormhole initiation energy metrics, hyperdimensional transit dynamics, reengineering DNA in reatime, or powering The Matrix while I'm on the road or sitting in a Starbucks - alas, I have to leave those idle pursuits to the teraflop machine in the den. L(

But it is pretty hard to exhaust a 1GHz/1GB config with most normal apps and you don't have to do a Quasimodo impersonation lugging around a 12+ pound PC bag :)
 
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