Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Best CAT Tool for Mac?
Poster: Shouguang Cao
Post title: Mac is geeky
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
… but there is often a price to pay for hiding everything away and making it more Mac-like: users no longer know what they are doing on a technical level. I suppose this is fine in certain areas, but in others it can lead to problems. Mind you, I'm not saying that Linux (the ‘opposite’ side of this spectrum) is the way to go either, or that software should be wilfully geeky, just that a slick, minimalistic UI isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all of UI design, at least when it comes to CAT tools.
In an ideal world, a CAT tool would have several modes: one newbie / Mac-user-friendly (oh dear: ‘Mac-user-friendly’? ‘Mac-user friendly’? ‘Mac user-friendly’? ;-)) mode, and one geek mode perhaps.
Michael [/quote]
Mac is actually quite geeky. I believe more programmers use Mac than Windows, perhaps even including those who work for Microsoft.
Topic: Best CAT Tool for Mac?
Poster: Shouguang Cao
Post title: Mac is geeky
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
… but there is often a price to pay for hiding everything away and making it more Mac-like: users no longer know what they are doing on a technical level. I suppose this is fine in certain areas, but in others it can lead to problems. Mind you, I'm not saying that Linux (the ‘opposite’ side of this spectrum) is the way to go either, or that software should be wilfully geeky, just that a slick, minimalistic UI isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all of UI design, at least when it comes to CAT tools.
In an ideal world, a CAT tool would have several modes: one newbie / Mac-user-friendly (oh dear: ‘Mac-user-friendly’? ‘Mac-user friendly’? ‘Mac user-friendly’? ;-)) mode, and one geek mode perhaps.
Michael [/quote]
Mac is actually quite geeky. I believe more programmers use Mac than Windows, perhaps even including those who work for Microsoft.