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Jim Easter

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Subject : RE: Windows 7 and i7 processor
Posted : 7/1/2018 10:05 AM
Post #44910 - In reply to #21578

Jim,

I know this is from an old forum thread, but I am just getting started using OT with ATM and doing a lot of testing out of strategies using the optimizer. My last optimization run took 3 days before it crashed.

Jim, here in 2018, I was hoping to get your opinion on an idea i have--I can buy a 2010 (mid yr) - Apple Mac Pro with 2 INtel Xeon processors with 32 GB Ram for around $700-800 ...

I would either run bootcamp (which I have done on my mac mini with 100% success--it was in fact my best Windows PC) -- or simply install Windows on it.

The reason I am thinking of this is that the Apple hardware is much more stable, and since it appears NT/OT can not take advantage of multi-threading directly, and its the OS that is providing that - I don't need to spend extra $ just to get the latest processor packages-since the HD and memory seem to be the real bottlenecks.

I would install a SSD drive on this-and it would be a dedicated NT box.

IS this viable? are there better alternatives in your opinion.

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