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Does anyone know whether SDL Trados can be run on the latest MacBook Air, the one with an M1 chip?
How smooth it is to use SDL Trados on the previous MacBooks?
Does anyone know whether SDL Trados can be run on the latest MacBook Air, the one with an M1 chip?
How smooth it is to use SDL Trados on the previous MacBooks?
Hi Li-ting Hsia,
The guides linked to by Steven are out of date as regards the newer M1 Macs.
The only option usable right now (May 2021) of the three mentioned there is Parallels. Bootcamp is not supported and VMWare has yet to release an M1 version of Fusion.
So running Trados on an M1 specifically means this:
One thing in Studio's favour is that it is not a 64-bit app, which is good, since 64-bit app support has only recently been added (in the last six months) by Microsoft to the Insider Preview version:
I guess someone like you or me is just going to have to buy an M1 Mac and find out...
Cheers,
Ed
Just to add something I found out about recently: virtualisation might actually get there faster than Windows ARM.
Microsoft has a virtual desktop edition for enterprise customers, as yet not a real product for consumers (pro consumers like us).
But if this does become a "packaged product", then you could simply run a virtual Windows machine on your Mac for work stuff and shut it down when no longer needed. It obviously needs to come in cheap enough to compete with buying a new PC/Mac every 3-5 years or whatever the normal period is.
Information: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/
As said, all very enterprise-y right now. But who knows? Maybe Microsoft will finally sell "PCs"...
It is selling a kit for Windows ARM developers, though:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-arm-build-2021/
So one of these might actually mean we have the chance to run Windows on a Mac (or indeed Linux, etc. machine) without any concerns about stability and/or support.
Just to add something I found out about recently: virtualisation might actually get there faster than Windows ARM.
Microsoft has a virtual desktop edition for enterprise customers, as yet not a real product for consumers (pro consumers like us).
But if this does become a "packaged product", then you could simply run a virtual Windows machine on your Mac for work stuff and shut it down when no longer needed. It obviously needs to come in cheap enough to compete with buying a new PC/Mac every 3-5 years or whatever the normal period is.
Information: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/
As said, all very enterprise-y right now. But who knows? Maybe Microsoft will finally sell "PCs"...
It is selling a kit for Windows ARM developers, though:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-arm-build-2021/
So one of these might actually mean we have the chance to run Windows on a Mac (or indeed Linux, etc. machine) without any concerns about stability and/or support.