Hello Li-ting Hsia ,

Please see the following requirements when running Studio on a MAC

https://www.sdltrados.com/support/how-to-run-sdl-trados-studio-on-an-apple-mac.html

With SDL Trados Studio 2021, you also have access to Trados Live Essentials, that also allows you to work directly from your browser in the cloud

https://www.sdltrados.com/products/trados-live/essential/

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The guides linked to by Steven are out of date as regards the newer M1 Macs.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:

1. Installing Parallels
2. Using Parallels to install a Windows Insider Preview version of Windows that runs on the Arm64 platform (i.e. Apple Silicon)

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:

blogs.windows.com/.../

I guess someone like you or me is just going to have to buy an M1 Mac and find out...

Cheers,

Ed

Dear colleagues,

Please see the link below in parallels forum.  Trados seems to run on M1 mac with arm Windows 10, but it cannot rerun after Windows is shut down.  The arm Windows 10 might be updated to enable the Trados to normally run though.

forum.parallels.com/.../

yikes! so it sounds like we have to wait until Microsoft approve their ARM version of Windows 10 for general release before any of us take the plunge. But from what I understand, (definitely not an expert talking here) the trend is towards ARM architecture and Studio will run on it in principle. Is that the gist of it?

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.

Well, yesterday I took the plunge and went out to buy a MacBook with the M1 chip. I was able to install Parallels, then Windows OS 10 via Parallels at no charge, and finally Trados Freelance on the Mac - a lengthy process but everything worked! I opened my first translation package this morning and got right to work. Thanks for your comments and support!

Tony

Great news Tony, hope it continues to run flawlessly for you!

Hi Antonio,

I am curious, would you mind telling us how much RAM is in your macbook. I am thinking of buying one, but here, only 8GB model is available, and I wonder if that will be enough for running everything smoothly: Parallels, Windows, Studio and a browser with a ton of tabs open?  Ehat do you think?

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

My MacBook Pro is running on 16GB of Ram, with the M1 chip.

Hi Antonio,

Thanks for the answer. Well, I guess I'll go with a pc laptop for now. Although, I am running Studio on a MacMini, with only 4GB.

But it is not enjoyable, so to speak... Slow, slow...