I've been using the Windows version of Quicken for the last decade, so when I bought an iMac (my first Mac) a few weeks ago, I picked up Quicken to go along with it.
What a COMPLETE PILE OF GARBAGE. I'm not talking about the missing features; how about:
- constant crashing
- eating downloaded transactions - just this morning, I downloaded 5 transactions into Mac Quicken. Then, immediately afterwards I downloaded 7 transactions into Windows Quicken. Windows Quicken reconciled, Mac Quicken was off by the two missing transactions.
- the interface is horrible. Every single window is broken apart, so when I'm in Quicken I literally have 6-7 tiny windows to try to get anything done.
- the reconcile method is straight from version 6 of Quicken, which came out in 1996. You've been able to auto-reconcile against the online balance for YEARS in the Windows version. Here, you have to type the balance in.
And for this, you get to pay DOUBLE what the Windows version costs just so you can run it natively on a Mac. Actually, scratch that, it's not really running "native", since Quicken 2007 isn't a universal binary despite being released in August/Sept. of '06.
I am MORE than disgusted with Intuit over this product. Unless they are completely redoing it for Quicken 2008, they might as well just kill this thing.
In the meantime, I'll continue to run my Windows version of Quicken in Parallels, but I won't spend another dime with Intuit until they put out a USEABLE Mac version!
What a COMPLETE PILE OF GARBAGE. I'm not talking about the missing features; how about:
- constant crashing
- eating downloaded transactions - just this morning, I downloaded 5 transactions into Mac Quicken. Then, immediately afterwards I downloaded 7 transactions into Windows Quicken. Windows Quicken reconciled, Mac Quicken was off by the two missing transactions.
- the interface is horrible. Every single window is broken apart, so when I'm in Quicken I literally have 6-7 tiny windows to try to get anything done.
- the reconcile method is straight from version 6 of Quicken, which came out in 1996. You've been able to auto-reconcile against the online balance for YEARS in the Windows version. Here, you have to type the balance in.
And for this, you get to pay DOUBLE what the Windows version costs just so you can run it natively on a Mac. Actually, scratch that, it's not really running "native", since Quicken 2007 isn't a universal binary despite being released in August/Sept. of '06.
I am MORE than disgusted with Intuit over this product. Unless they are completely redoing it for Quicken 2008, they might as well just kill this thing.
In the meantime, I'll continue to run my Windows version of Quicken in Parallels, but I won't spend another dime with Intuit until they put out a USEABLE Mac version!