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Summary: Improvement Over Quicken 2003 for Mac
Review: I like this software better than Quicken 2003 for Mac. It adds a tab called "Quicken Insights" that gives you and overview of all your accounts. You can customize it to show upcoming bills, net worth and other items as you prefer. There is also more analytical information on investments. The software installed flawlessly on my Mac which uses OS X and imported my file in a minute or so from Quicken 2003 without any errors. Registration was a snap. The product is not as robust as the Windows version but works well. The new reports available are very snazzy. I like Quicken 2004 for the Mac.
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Summary: I am returning this ... to Intuit.
Review: ...Got it installed for upgrade from Quicken 2002, used for 2 hours. Crashed first time while entering a transaction in calendar. Crashed second time while reconciling an account; after restarting the account balances were all screwed up. Try to enter your own date for the "Interest Date" while reconciling a bank account, the POS will replace it with the date from the "Ending balance". While reconciling a brokerage account, click "New Transaction"; once done with transaction, click the "Reconcile" button - instead of returning to reconcillation, you get a window with a list of actions (the Reconcile button is overlayed over the Actions button, which retains its effect over most of the Reconcile button). Three years ago, I traded some stock a couple of times (always long, never short), and disposed of it completely, but the Portofolio shows that I have negative 400 shares of that stock. Clicking on details shows the correct balance (zero), but the portofolio does not adjust and keeps showing -400. Too bad I cannot rate it with negative stars. There is one excellent feature though: the 60-day money back guarantee.
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Summary: Wish Bill G made "Money" for Mac
Review: Having used Quicken for over 10 years - - '90 - '02, and '03-'04 - - I switched to MS Money in 2003 when I was still using PCs. I recently switched to a Powermac G-4, and am glad I did, but the one thing I miss the most in the PC world is MS Money: it is just a better, more intuitive product. Unfortunately, Quicken is the only game in town for Mac users. It's okay, but Money is better.
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Summary: I guess you pay much more for having a Mac
Review: One of the things that is absolutely killing the Mac platform (less than 2% marketshare, as of mid 2003) is the astronomically higher prices you must pay for software. Apparently Windows users can get a basic version of Quicken in the $30 range (let's face it, who uses the deluxe features anyway?) But Mac users are paying upwards of $70. I have an old verson of Quicken 98 that came with my original Imac. I have no intention of upgrading. Apple is not going to be around for the long term anyway. The software vendors like Intuit are making sure of that.
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Summary: Stay away from Quicken
Review: For 7-8 years I have struggled with Quicken for Mac. My data keeps developing damage due to continuing bugs in the way the product handles lot sales and transfers between accounts. Now my data can't even be fully exported. The 2004 is the worst upgrade they have ever released. Full of bugs. If they only let me beta test it for one day, I could have resolved at least 3-4 bugs. Shame on Intuit!
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Summary: An OK Product
Review: Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems Quicken 2004 is less intuitive than previous. I have had a very confusing 3 hours getting around this product and I'm still uncertain where numerous things are. The product did not come with a very detailed instruction book and always refers to the online help section of their site for questions.
I was also disappointed to see that two of my Mutual Fund investment companies were not available with this version to link to. Both of these companies are in the top ten of mutual fund investment companies. I will write Quicken about this. The interface design was fairly ordered and pretty, but nothing special.
I feel this program will help me with what I need to do, but seems rather clumbsy. I had better luck using Yahoo! Finance online (a free service).
Try this program out and hopefully you will have better luck than I have.
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Summary: Quicken 2004 for Mac - not great, but not bad either.
Review: I upgraded from Quicken 2003 to 2004...There are some nice additions that bolster this version. However, if you are using 2002 or 2003 there is nothing stunning with 2004 that you absolutely have to have. Kudos to Intuit for supporting the Mac platform with Quicken - it is much appreciated that they are thinking about the Mac community.
That said though, I wish Quicken for Mac was as intuitive and slick as Quicken for Windows. It just seems to me that the PC version is more full featured and easier to use.
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Summary: Buggy and cumbersome - Need an alternative
Review: after days of trying to get this software to work as expected, i'm ready to return it. i even bought a book to see if i was doing something wrong. the book is written for the Windows version and apparently is completely different. downloading data from Bank of America is very buggy. (not the fault of BofA, the data is clean, Quicken mixes up the records, wrong dates, changes amounts and titles, assigns strange categories, etc.) their support was completely unresponsive. their help files didnt address the issues. if this is your first time using financial software, there is no good way to get old information in. wish MS Money was available for Mac. really wish Apple would write an alternative. feel trapped with Quicken because there is no real competition.
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Summary: A dud of an "upgrade"
Review: I wish I had read some of the customer reviews here before "upgrading" from Quicken 2000 to Quicken 2004. I was pretty happy with 2000, but thought I'd be better off running in native OS-X mode. Big mistake! The new version is much slower than the old one and is less stable to boot. That's when running under Panther -- if you restart under 9.2.2 and try to use this program, it's a complete disaster. In either case, I've run into several major annoyances (apart from the crashes) in just a few days of use: (1) When you type text in a register field, the line of text has an annoying tendency to stretch and compress unpredictably, making it virtually impossible to place the cursor where you want to in order to make a correction. That didn't happen before! (2) Updating the prices in the investment portfolio used to be pretty fast, but now takes FOREVER. (3) When you finish reconciling a credit card account, the program no longer asks you if you want to pay the bill now; instead, you have to navigate to the checking account from which you are going to make the payment and enter the payment manually.
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Summary: A decade of work down the drain
Review: I first started using Quicken for DOS in 1993. Since then, I have diligently recorded every single financial transaction I have made, all the while upgrading seamlessly each year to the newest version of Quicken. Quicken was a part of my life, and moving my data regularly to the latest software update was always a breeze. But then I decided to switch to Mac. While my overall experience moving to Mac was excellent (Macs rule!), the move of my Quicken data to Quicken 2004 for Mac was a nightmare. I spent literally dozens of hours tweaking my data and in many cases simply reentering it manually, and even now it still doesn't quite work right. The program itself is clunky and bears no resemblance to the popular Windows product. To Intuit: Shame on you for putting this product in a box and selling it. You shouldn't even give this worthless thing away. It is so awful. I will never buy another Intuit product again. I don't know how your programmers can even look at themselves in the mirror. My kindergartener can write better software than this. To Apple: You really ought to put your own personal financial software in the next round of iLife, and be sure to make it compatible with Quicken for Windows data. And for god sake, don't let Intuit pre-bundle any of their software on Macs in the future. It reflects poorly on Apple.
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