A "friend" persuaded me to buy an iMac last year. "You will love how much easier it is to use than that Windows junk you're used to." Since the price of an iMac was reasonable, I decided to take a chance.
When I bought and installed QuickBooks Pro 4.0, I very quickly learned why Apple is failing.
The Windows 95/98 version of QuickBooks Pro 99 can do anything. I have been using Intuit products since 1990, and have been spoiled by the way such a simple program can handle complicated transactions along with daily business. (When I worked for an SAP consulting firm, the managing partner said he was afraid to make us implement SAP R/3, because QuickBooks performed circles around that million dollar software!)
But when you install QuickBooks on your Mac, you return to the stone ages. QuickBooks for DOS systems could do more.
I called Intuit's customer support (where I tend to get excellent treatment, because I've used the product for so long -- one of my solutions is posted to their techie's help manual) to complain. The techie was very nice and very frank. I should not expect an upgrade of QuickBooks for the Mac any time soon, because the market was not strong enough.
And while Microsoft enables you to transfer QuickBooks data from the Mac platform to Windows 98, the Mac OS will not permit a transfer in this direction. I therefore spent a week of very valuable time re-entering data and setting up the company file.
A shame that Mac-only users will never get to know how good this software really is.Get more detail about QuickBooks Pro 4.0 for Macintosh.
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