Will Trados Studio ever be available for Mac? Thread poster: Emanuele Vacca
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Emanuele Vacca 
Italy
Local time: 01:17
Member (2020)
English to Italian
Hi all! I hope this is the correct forum where to ask this question. As I will have to buy a new computer in a few months, I was wondering: will Trados Studio ever be available for Mac? I mean directly, without Bootcamp, Parallels or VMWare. I dare to hope this because I remember that a few years ago, when RWS was about to acquire SDL, they were planning on making Studio available for Mac, at least according to rumours. Is any industry insider willing to risk losing his/her job to answer my ques... See more Hi all! I hope this is the correct forum where to ask this question. As I will have to buy a new computer in a few months, I was wondering: will Trados Studio ever be available for Mac? I mean directly, without Bootcamp, Parallels or VMWare. I dare to hope this because I remember that a few years ago, when RWS was about to acquire SDL, they were planning on making Studio available for Mac, at least according to rumours. Is any industry insider willing to risk losing his/her job to answer my question? I guess a lot of translators would love to have Studio directly on Mac.
[Edited at 2022-09-19 20:58 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Trados depends on a lot of libraries, plug-ins etc. that are only available as Windows software. Same goes for mQ.
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Why don't you try Windows emulation virtual machine environment on Mac. Some translators are using it now.
Soonthon L.
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:17
English to Russian
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Emanuele Vacca wrote:
Hi all! I hope this is the correct forum where to ask this question. As I will have to buy a new computer in a few months, I was wondering: will Trados Studio ever be available for Mac?
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I guess a lot of translators would love to have Studio directly on Mac.
[Edited at 2022-09-19 20:58 GMT]
Not sure that I would go for it
| | | | Alan Halls
Germany
Local time: 01:17
German to English
| Unlikely.... | Sep 21, 2022 |
I've used Transit - and occasionally Trados - since 1999 and switched to an iMac about 8 years ago because hardware-wise they are highly reliable. This meant using VMware and/or Parallels. I have often suggested to STAR that a MacOS version of Transit would be brilliant but I don't think they're interested. Trados is the same. They would need a completely new programming concept.
But the reliability of the Mac hardware does make sense in my opinion.
The OS is as buggy as Windows bu... See more I've used Transit - and occasionally Trados - since 1999 and switched to an iMac about 8 years ago because hardware-wise they are highly reliable. This meant using VMware and/or Parallels. I have often suggested to STAR that a MacOS version of Transit would be brilliant but I don't think they're interested. Trados is the same. They would need a completely new programming concept.
But the reliability of the Mac hardware does make sense in my opinion.
The OS is as buggy as Windows but differently buggy. And Monterey is at least a stable OS again.
So I'm staying with that rather than go for browser based alternatives that, in my view, are not really alternatives. ▲ Collapse
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Alan Halls wrote:
The OS is as buggy as Windows but differently buggy.
What bugs are you referring to?
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Alan Halls wrote:
The OS is as buggy as Windows but differently buggy.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
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Alan Halls
Germany
Local time: 01:17
German to English
Wolfgang wrote: Alan Halls wrote:
The OS is as buggy as Windows but differently buggy.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
Hi Wolfgang, hi Hans!
Examples...
I have two Synology NAS for all our data. They boot up at 6 am and shut down in the evening. As long as I turn the macs off in the evening and reboot them after the NAS boot up, there's a chance the macs will find them. Not always but often. The start-up preferences are set to find them. If I leave the macs on at night, the next morning they've forgotten all about the NAS and I have to log on to them afresh. That doesn't happen with windows.
Finder: I set the finder preferences to include certain items in the left hand pane. Drives, ssd etc. One I repeatedly set is Desktop. But that setting only stays a couple of days and then disappears. The others don't.
When I set up a mac I set it up from scratch as if I were in UK but wirh a German keyboard and euros as currency. That way all my settings are 100% English. The date at.top right displays correctly as e.g. 4 Oct. A few days later, I change the locale to Germany to get better hits and immediately MacOS puts a full stop after the number in that date. Nothing else changes, the spelling stays English but there's suddenly a German fullstop after the number. That's a tiny issue but I notified Apple about 5 years ago and they didn't even reply.
There are other issues but nothing dramatic. No crashes. But the claim that MacOS is the bees knees is, I'm afraid, not wholly accurate. It's still a very stable system and that's what counts.
Alan
[Edited at 2022-10-04 15:34 GMT]
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Alan Halls wrote: Wolfgang wrote: Alan Halls wrote:
The OS is as buggy as Windows but differently buggy.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Hi Wolfgang, hi Hans! Examples... ... Finder: I set the finder preferences to include certain items in the left hand pane. Drives, ssd etc. One I repeatedly set is Desktop. But that setting only stays a couple of days and then disappears. The others don't. When I set up a mac I set it up from scratch as if I were in UK but wirh a German keyboard and euros as currency. That way all my settings are 100% English. The date at.top right displays correctly as e.g. 4 Oct. A few days later, I change the locale to Germany to get better hits and immediately MacOS puts a full stop after the number in that date. Nothing else changes, the spelling stays English but there's suddenly a German fullstop after the number. That's a tiny issue but I notified Apple about 5 years ago and they didn't even reply. Alan [Edited at 2022-10-04 15:34 GMT]
I have set Desktop in the left hand pane ages ago and it stays...
I just noticed the tiny dot after Tue 4. Oct. 17:47. I have been using Macs for the best of about 35 years and never noticed it. Should I consider some Linux distro ?
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