Considering switch to Mac--any advice on converting PC to Apple with Quicken

I have used Quicken for 15 years and have a lot of data built up. This is our most important application. We are considering switching to a Mac from PC. Any advice on the state of Quicken for Mac today and how hard or difficult the conversion would be for a large file with lot of historical data?

Thanks for any advice.

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The Windoze and Mac versions are really not compatible at this time. It is difficult at best to try and convert the Windoze data file to the Mac version. There is information about doing this in Intuit's knowledge base. I don't think that the procedure is worth the effort. Most Mac folks with the new Intel boxes run the Windoze version under virtualization software such as Vmware Fusion or Parallels. I use Fusion on My two Intel Macs and Quicken runs perfectly. Another alternative is to use "Bootcamp" which installs Windoze on a seperate partition on your Mac but this requires a reboot anytime you want to run Windoze. Still another alternative is to use the Bootcamp partition as a virtual machine under Fusion or Parallels. The advantage to virtual machines is you don't have to reboot to run Windoze and they run at near native speed. Make the switch to Mac and you'll never look back.

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Justan Oldfart

I strongly second the above advice. The Mac version is several years behind the PC version, particularly in the area of stock transactions. I use Parallels and it works very smoothly.

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Patrick Brownsword

The Mac version of Quicken is godawful. I'd been using Quicken since

6.0 (1996?), and switched to a Mac this past spring. I ended up using Parallels to run Quicken 2007 under Windows XP.

I'm going to the web version of Quicken whenever that is released.

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Rich

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