Fun Thread: Why I love my trading laptop

Bad_Badness · Aug 31, 2020

DevBru said:
Why is boot time so important? My system probably boots in 30 seconds or so, my trading isn't going to improve when my system can boot in 10 seconds.

How come the latency is so high? I see you are from the USA, so you should be a lot closer the servers as i am since i am located in Europe, yet my latency is around 80 ms.
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Boot time makes no difference of course. It is just a measure of machine speed. As for latency, I am doing "full boat" calculation, Round trip, because that is effectively what is happening.

Gekko2020 · Sep 1, 2020

Bad_Badness said:
Desktop machines run so fast these days. In general, I think they run about+ 50% faster with the same chips series, desktop versus mobile. What is your boot time? I can't get mine below 11 seconds with 7.6 of that being BIOS. I run the Samsung 970 Pro as my system drive. I thought I should use the pro for more reliability. Although I have to say I have not had a single problem with any of the Samsung SSDs since they were introduced. I keep expecting them to fail.

Now if I could get a decent latency of under 150ms, I would be very happy for a retail person. Right now I am stuck at about 550ms. Which I assume means that by the time something happen and I do something, the minimum is 1100MS. So in reality, I am probably looking at 2000-3000 ms discretionary trading. Good thing I am not on satellite.
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I check my boot time in the am when I restart system.

virtusa · Sep 1, 2020

Bad_Badness said:
i7-8750H @ 2.2 GHz. This one: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...-8750h-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

48Gb of Ram. I had 32Gb, and had an extra 16Gb, so I threw it in. Even though, it is 3 simms, my understanding is that it will still Dual Channel, just to the two it is using.

All and all those specs above are WAY more than one needs for average retail people. If you are more serious, a remote VM might be the better way to go. Although I would still get a high quality build to connect. I personally, like local storage, local CPU, local data security and backup because I pay once and am done. I can do all those things well. I try to stay away from too many subscriptions and outsourcing but that is personal preference.

And, I don't like having employees too!
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I bought in 2016 the MSI GE72 Apache Pro. I took it because of the double cooling (2 ventilators) that can even go in Turbo mode. Very good laptop and never had any heating problems.
I agree with you to keep all things as much as possible local.

apdxyk · Sep 12, 2020

I have an HP laptop with an OLED screen. I has quickly became my go to trading device. Very good at reading anything to be read.

Bad_Badness · Sep 12, 2020

These Linux branched "OEM" machines are getting good reviews too.
https://system76.com/laptops

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Fun Thread: Why I love my trading laptop

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