Forum: XTM Cloud support
Topic: What is your opinion on XTM Cloud CAT tool?
Poster: Lincoln Hui
Post title: Slow
The best thing I can say about XTM is that it's not CrowdIn.
[quote]Vickie Dimitriadou wrote:
Dear Fellow-Linguists,
Many of you have complained about speed.
My experience with XTM's speed depends on the combination of hardware (RAM mostly), Operating System, and Browser.
On a laptop with 2 MB RAM, Windows XP, and Firefox 52, XTM is really SLOW! It often crashes too, especially with large or very large files, that is a very large number of segments.
On a laptop with 4 MB RAM, Windows 10, and Firefox 69, XTM is NOT slow! It loads fast, it works fast. Maybe not "lightning fast", but not counter-productive either.
Same goes for other online CAT tools, like Smartling for example.
So... I wonder whether the speed issue is related to RAM, Operating System, and Browser used.
This is my own experience of course, and I would love to hear from you on this topic.
[Edited at 2020-09-12 16:47 GMT] [/quote]
If it's at all perceptible, it's too slow. Offline CAT tools are expected to respond instantly and I hold online tools to the same standard. Plus, even if your internet connection is slow, local cloud-based tools like Memsource and MemoQ allow you to select several segments at the same time and confirm them at once, but no, with XTM, it has to be one by one.
Topic: What is your opinion on XTM Cloud CAT tool?
Poster: Lincoln Hui
Post title: Slow
The best thing I can say about XTM is that it's not CrowdIn.
[quote]Vickie Dimitriadou wrote:
Dear Fellow-Linguists,
Many of you have complained about speed.
My experience with XTM's speed depends on the combination of hardware (RAM mostly), Operating System, and Browser.
On a laptop with 2 MB RAM, Windows XP, and Firefox 52, XTM is really SLOW! It often crashes too, especially with large or very large files, that is a very large number of segments.
On a laptop with 4 MB RAM, Windows 10, and Firefox 69, XTM is NOT slow! It loads fast, it works fast. Maybe not "lightning fast", but not counter-productive either.
Same goes for other online CAT tools, like Smartling for example.
So... I wonder whether the speed issue is related to RAM, Operating System, and Browser used.
This is my own experience of course, and I would love to hear from you on this topic.
[Edited at 2020-09-12 16:47 GMT] [/quote]
If it's at all perceptible, it's too slow. Offline CAT tools are expected to respond instantly and I hold online tools to the same standard. Plus, even if your internet connection is slow, local cloud-based tools like Memsource and MemoQ allow you to select several segments at the same time and confirm them at once, but no, with XTM, it has to be one by one.