My kids have been bugging me for years to try out Apple products. My daughter decided she had to have the iPhone 4s since Verizon now carries it. So.....I decided to give one a try and retire my Blackberry. Well, after playing with it all weekend I am so impressed that I logged onto the Apple store and ordered a Macbook Pro. I had hesitated even looking at a Mac because I was under the impression that I could no longer run my favorite programs (Lightroom and Photoshop) but come to find out that there are Mac versions available. The only program that needs a workaround seems to be Quicken. I've used Quicken for many years at the office and at home and regularly backup and restore files from one machine to another and send files to the accountant. I was surprised to find out there is no Quicken for Mac that will allow me to do that. My plan is to run Quicken on the Mac under Windows with the Parallels 7 program. Is this the best plan? Perhaps I should use Bootcamp instead? Any tips from the Mac pros would be great
I hope the Macbook will be as easy to deal with as this iPhone. I don't miss the Blackberry......at all.

 

Quicken® Essentials for Mac Personal Finance Software - Mac Financial Software

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From what I've read the Quicken essentials for Mac is worthless. You can't even export. Apparently long-time Mac users are quite disgusted with their abandonment by Intuit.

 

Parallels/VMware Fusion are nice because you can run the virtual machine simultaneously to your OSX environment. It can be setup to basically be just another window. Highly recommend setting this option up so that you don't have to reboot into Windows environment just for Quicken.

 

I use VM on my work mac and it works very well.

 

Quicken is useless on the Mac. They could not have been bothered to port a decent version, evidently.

I use quickbooks and it works fine for my needs. If you prefer Quicken there are many methods to run it, either virtualized with vmware or via parallels.

These days there is very little need to run doze natively via bootcamp for the majority of software.

 

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When U buy the MacPro look at the Apps. There are a lot of them that do the same thing as other software you need to load in. I am not familiar with Quicken but someone at Apple could help. Just ask. They are a wealth of information. BTW what happen to you with your first Apple experience is one of thousands of reasons Apple's stock is so high. They pull you in one product at a time. GL.

 

Congrats, My next laptop will be a macbook. I finally converted my wife to apple about 2 years ago with an Iphone......we now have 2 apple tv's, 2 Ipads, and 2 Iphones in the house.

 

Best move you ever made, I am all Apple except at the office.