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PC quicken Vs Quicken for Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 578042" data-attributes="member: 36256"><p>First, the backstory. I'm a long-time Quicken user. Since my switch to Mac, I've used Fusion to run Windows to run Quicken. I don't know about you guys, but I use Quicken every day, sometimes several times a day. I was getting tired of starting up my virtual machine every time I wanted to check a balance or make an entry. I looked at a LOT of the for-Mac financial software (e.g., Liquid Ledger) and they weren't as powerful/feature-rich as Quicken. Last month I got desperate enough to buy ($75) Quicken for Mac (macwax, I too had read the reviews and forums). Intuit trumpets the Quicken-entry Dashboard widget, which did sound cool and handy. Anyway, one week <em>trying</em> to use Quicken for Mac made me want to die. It was basically unusable. The Dashboard widget was snazzy and worked as advertised, but everything else was confusing and didn't even seem to work! So I was back to using Fusion/Windows/Quicken.</p><p></p><p>Now to my point. Someone on this forum mentioned <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com" target="_blank">Crossover</a> (in the context of running IE on Mac I think). I checked out Crossover, and saw it supports Quicken. Crossover runs select Windows applications on a Mac <em>without any Windows installation at all</em>. This is so cool. So now I have a Quicken icon in my dock. I click it, Crossover opens and runs Quicken for Windows. Ready to go faster than virtual machine, without having to share any hardware resources with Windows. Crossover has a 30-day trial, then costs $60, $40 with an education discount.</p><p></p><p>There's one caveat though. Codeweavers ranks the performance of these bottle-apps, and Quicken 2006 and 2007 have Bronze medal rankings. That means they will run, but could have some bugs...I have been running Quicken 2007 for three weeks now, with no stability problems. The only thing I've noticed is that I wasn't able to get internet transaction downloads to work. I didn't try to get it to work. I just noticed that it didn't. That doesn't bother me, because I enter transactions as I go...That might be vital to some of you. Maybe you can get it to work; I don't know.</p><p> </p><p>Well anyway, I just wanted to let you know there's another option that I'm happy with. You'll have to judge what will be best in your situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neo, post: 578042, member: 36256"] First, the backstory. I'm a long-time Quicken user. Since my switch to Mac, I've used Fusion to run Windows to run Quicken. I don't know about you guys, but I use Quicken every day, sometimes several times a day. I was getting tired of starting up my virtual machine every time I wanted to check a balance or make an entry. I looked at a LOT of the for-Mac financial software (e.g., Liquid Ledger) and they weren't as powerful/feature-rich as Quicken. Last month I got desperate enough to buy ($75) Quicken for Mac (macwax, I too had read the reviews and forums). Intuit trumpets the Quicken-entry Dashboard widget, which did sound cool and handy. Anyway, one week [I]trying[/I] to use Quicken for Mac made me want to die. It was basically unusable. The Dashboard widget was snazzy and worked as advertised, but everything else was confusing and didn't even seem to work! So I was back to using Fusion/Windows/Quicken. Now to my point. Someone on this forum mentioned [URL="http://www.codeweavers.com"]Crossover[/URL] (in the context of running IE on Mac I think). I checked out Crossover, and saw it supports Quicken. Crossover runs select Windows applications on a Mac [I]without any Windows installation at all[/I]. This is so cool. So now I have a Quicken icon in my dock. I click it, Crossover opens and runs Quicken for Windows. Ready to go faster than virtual machine, without having to share any hardware resources with Windows. Crossover has a 30-day trial, then costs $60, $40 with an education discount. There's one caveat though. Codeweavers ranks the performance of these bottle-apps, and Quicken 2006 and 2007 have Bronze medal rankings. That means they will run, but could have some bugs...I have been running Quicken 2007 for three weeks now, with no stability problems. The only thing I've noticed is that I wasn't able to get internet transaction downloads to work. I didn't try to get it to work. I just noticed that it didn't. That doesn't bother me, because I enter transactions as I go...That might be vital to some of you. Maybe you can get it to work; I don't know. Well anyway, I just wanted to let you know there's another option that I'm happy with. You'll have to judge what will be best in your situation. [/QUOTE]
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