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Posted by Gary Wilson on December 18, 2006 at 20:53:07:

In Reply to: Re: Macintosh posted by Kaveh Kermanshahi on December 04, 2006 at 07:24:30:

Dear Kaveh,

I have not looked at Quicken for a very long time. I don't imaagine it would have the range of functionality that Fund Manager has - but it may suit if you have quite basic needs. I too would love to avoid Windows - the only good news is that Parallels seems to work just fine & the forthcoming version is to have this "coherency" thing, so in theory at least, if I have understood correctly FM will appear to run like a native Mac application. Of course downside is the price of Parallels & a Win version - but I think its a small price to pay. I wonder how many of us are running FM on Mac? ;-)

Regards,

Gary Wilson
Australia

: Dear Gary,
: Thank you so much for your response. I truly appreciate it. I am running Parallells too with FM and it is working well. Do you think Quicken fo Mac would be similar to FM? I just would love not to have to run Windows at all. The only reason I use it now is for FM.
: Thank You again,
: kaveh

: : Dear Kaveh,

: : I am also a long time Fund Manager User. I switch to Mac about two years ago & are quite delighted to be a Mac User. I have a wide range of computing interests & also support my wifes business activities - so I have always had the need for a wider range of applications than many computer users. It took quite a time but I was able to find excellent replacement applications in the Mac environment with the notable exception of Fund Manager. I have hunted long & hard without success. I have seem one or two interesing Apps in this space, but nothing that comes near what I need or what Fund Manager offers. I further note even if "we" ;-) found an acceptable alternative to Fund Manager there is then the question of migrating our data. By way of background I tried to run Fund Manager on my G5 iMac via Virtual PC. This turned out to be just hopeless - so fortunately I had not thown out my old HP PC - so I used that for the sole purpose of running Fund Manager. A few weeks ago I purchased a new iMac with the intel CPU with the sole purpose of using Boot Camp or similar to run Fund Manager. I thought Boot Camp would be the best option because it natively runs WINXP - however I think this was a blunder. I could not get WINXP going under the Boot Camp scenario & was really #**%#. Out of spite I though I would give Parallels a shot which is of course an emulator. What can I say it loaded up nicely & quickly & I had Fund Manager running nicely in no time at all. Off course the real bonus is its sits on my iMac Desktop with my other Apps & the whole thing is very convenient. One bonus with Parallels is you can drag Fund Manager Back up files into the Mac environment if you wish. In my 2/3 weeks of use everything in Fund Manager seems pretty solid - opens faster than on my PC. I did have one problem one day in Fund Manager said I was using old fm version files & so would not open files - that was nonsense & not sure if this was Parallels problem or somewhere else. I have also noticed it pays to do manual saves & I have shut down sometimes & Fund Manager has not kept the days transactions. It pays to have a "Mighty Mouse" so you can simulate the right click. I am quite optimistic this is going to work out quite well & some of my FM graphs look just magic on my 20" iMac! Frankly I think Parallels/WINXP/FM is the only "game in town". Even if you find an acceptable iMac App sticking with FM via Parallels would still have quite a few attractions.

: : Cheers Gary Wilson

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