Need to run Quicken for Windows 2010 on my MacBook Pro

Best advice would be purchase a program like Parallels:
http://www.parallels.com/
and Windows XP will be needed if the version of Quicken you will be using will still run on it.

Yes, this new offering from Intuit is totally worthless to me...I'm not a buyer.

But, Quicken for Mac 2007 works great. Great for all investment tracking, reports, budgets, etc..

My hope is Intuit will realize how bad Essentials is (reviewing their forums, I believe they now know!) and continue online support for Quicken 2007 till they come up with a better product for Macs. They have insinuated, report from a moderator and employee, that they will make a better one for the next offering.

Dale

For a free option you could try Virtual Box by Sun.
[http://www.virtualbox.org>
You will still need to purchase a copy of Windows if you don't already own a copy.

I just got my Mac and was planning to go total immersion and not run any windows-based programs…that is until I tried using Entourage instead of Outlook and Quicken Essentials versus the PC version.

So I installed VM Ware and both are working fine except when I open Quicken it always asks me if I am a new or existing user and to select a data file. If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.

Never mind. I figured it out. I just had to pull the files into a directory on the VM Ware C: drive instead of where there were on Mac drive.

I use Parallels with Win XP and the only win application I run is Quicken. I have had Parallels for quite some time, so I haven't tried anything else.

There is something new that does not require you to purchase Windows. I believe it is called Crossover. You can download a trial and install Quicken that way. I believe it allows you to run Windows based software in the Mac environment, but the software list is somewhat limited. I'm not sure if Quicken 2010 is supported.