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Dan Lucas 
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:06
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Difficult to say. Source file formats can be everything from Word to PowerPoint, Excel, to InDesign. What I tend to receive in Phrase or Trados are a few hundred to a few thousand characters. Rather than being separated out for me these will be part of a much larger document (up to a couple of hundred pages), with nearly all the segments locked. The documents are usually complex in terms of layout and formatting - I very seldom get something as simple as a single-column document in Word.
<... See more Difficult to say. Source file formats can be everything from Word to PowerPoint, Excel, to InDesign. What I tend to receive in Phrase or Trados are a few hundred to a few thousand characters. Rather than being separated out for me these will be part of a much larger document (up to a couple of hundred pages), with nearly all the segments locked. The documents are usually complex in terms of layout and formatting - I very seldom get something as simple as a single-column document in Word.
I don't notice any problems with responsiveness, which is to say that the Trados interface is sluggish (as it was sluggish on my previous i7 system) and the Phrase desktop editor front-end is quite sprightly.
If I were (for example) selecting hundreds of contiguous segments and performing actions on those I would imagine that a faster system would be, unsurprisingly, faster. But that is not something that I have to do very often. Other people with different workflows may have different experiences!
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Local time: 21:06
Member (2007)
English to German
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Thanks to all of your for your help and suggestions. I'll think about it ...
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In my experience, there are diminishing returns when it comes to throwing computing power at Word and Trados.
When the input file is bad, it's still going to go take its sweet time with it, no matter the number of processor cores.
For work, I'm running a 10 year old i7 setup (it's comparable with today's i3 in terms of specs), which I took care to future-proof at the time,
and I have nothing to complain about.
I'm typically working with Trados, Photoshop, Word and Excel ... See more In my experience, there are diminishing returns when it comes to throwing computing power at Word and Trados.
When the input file is bad, it's still going to go take its sweet time with it, no matter the number of processor cores.
For work, I'm running a 10 year old i7 setup (it's comparable with today's i3 in terms of specs), which I took care to future-proof at the time,
and I have nothing to complain about.
I'm typically working with Trados, Photoshop, Word and Excel files. Word files are usually OCR-d, with overbloated file sizes, text boxes and formatting all over the place.
I agree with the previous comment about 16 gigs of ram being the minimum.
In my experience, putting the system files together with the work-related environment on a NVMe drive helps with responsiveness,
but ultimately a lot comes down to keeping the system clean - if millions of background programs run immediately on startup,
it's going to slow down no matter what.
Biggest challenge when buying PCs is navigating the mess with all the different components.
Even if you're absolutely not into this stuff, some basic knowledge will help you not get ripped off.
Here's a site I've been using over the years to help me out:
https://www.logicalincrements.com
It separates builds into tiers, which should give you some idea what you're getting for the money, as well as what's considered good and what
is probably overkill (e.g. don't get yourself tricked into putting a RTX 4700 video card in an office desktop).
High-end PC hardware is mostly there to cater to gaming, playing videos in 4K resolution, 3D rendering and video editing,
you don't need that much for word-processing.
Personally, I wouldn't go above "great" tier, depending on your budget and how much you'd like to future proof your purchase. ▲ Collapse
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