So, I have not dealt much with QuickBooks, but I'm doing some work for a friend who is switching over to Mac and she is having me help her. I've been able to set up most of her stuff pretty easily. My question is that she is running QuickBooks 2008 Pro on her old PC, what we're trying to figure out is if it would be: a. Easier to install XP on Parallels and run her Quickbooks from there OR b. Get QuiickBooks 2009 Pro for Mac and convert her old data over I am just curious to know if anyone has done this and if the PC to Mac data conversion was simple or tedious. Thanks for your help! I think I've tried them all.
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My problem is that I'm just so used to Quicken. I have 3 businesses, all with multiple accounts (one with at least 15), so conversion has to work. So far I've found nothing that converts the data properly. I've searched here, Intuit, Google, and tried several other Mac financial software vendors. IBank and iBiz looks promising, but I haven't had the time to really investigate. And the set up for each application I try is different. I feel like if I knew the language, maybe it would do what I need, but it's so hard to tell.
Intense frustration. My problem with that is that I need to run XP and OS X at the same time.
Parallels allows me to do that. It would drive me crazy to have to boot into bootcamp every time I needed to use Quicken. Now, there is an application that is like Parallels that is free, and I've heard it's very good. You might want to try that., I think is the one that a lot of people are happy with.
Crossover doesn't seem to work well for me, it's too slow. But others here have told me that I must've done something wrong, because they have been happy running Quicken with it. Quickbooks, I think, is on the silver list. Again, I'm uncertain, but at least that gives you even more to think about.
Lots of great suggestions in this thread. I didn't know so many people were having trouble with QuickBooks on the Mac, and that's sort of a bummer. Luckily, like a few people have already mentioned, you have options that let you virtualize other operating systems. Twott28, since you'll be getting Windows XP either way, I recommend at least checking out the free trial of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac. It lasts 15 days, and gives you access to the full functionality of the full version, including the very spiffy Coherence mode which lets you run Windows apps right on your OS X desktop, and the ability to share, drag and drop files between OSes.
You might find that virtualizing Windows gives your Mac a lot of extra flexibility it wouldn't otherwise have. You basically wouldn't have to worry about software OS requirements again.