![]() Codeweavers ranks the performance of these bottle-apps, and Quicken 20 have Bronze medal rankings. Crossover has a 30-day trial, then costs $60, $40 with an education discount. Ready to go faster than virtual machine, without having to share any hardware resources with Windows. I click it, Crossover opens and runs Quicken for Windows. Crossover runs select Windows applications on a Mac without any Windows installation at all. I checked out Crossover, and saw it supports Quicken. Someone on this forum mentioned Crossover (in the context of running IE on Mac I think). The Dashboard widget was snazzy and worked as advertised, but everything else was confusing and didn't even seem to work! So I was back to using Fusion/Windows/Quicken. Anyway, one week trying to use Quicken for Mac made me want to die. Intuit trumpets the Quicken-entry Dashboard widget, which did sound cool and handy. Last month I got desperate enough to buy ($75) Quicken for Mac (macwax, I too had read the reviews and forums). I looked at a LOT of the for-Mac financial software (e.g., Liquid Ledger) and they weren't as powerful/feature-rich as Quicken. I was getting tired of starting up my virtual machine every time I wanted to check a balance or make an entry. I don't know about you guys, but I use Quicken every day, sometimes several times a day. Since my switch to Mac, I've used Fusion to run Windows to run Quicken.
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