can anyone vouch for a good laptop for trading purposes?..reliability and mobility is important…am heading down the mac path although i hear there will be software compatibility issues there should be ways around this right?..or is it best to stick with windows?
You should stick with what you are most comfortable and competent with. If Windows has been your platform of choice, I would suggest it will take a year to become as competent on Mac and vice versa. There are tricks to get Mac to run MT4 like running a virtual Windows machine but it seems to be doable. Of course with Mac, there may be some gotcha that will happen that few experienced before.