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 - Very Different from The PC versionThe QB for Mac is completely different than the Windows version. If you need to be able to hit the ground running, and you used a Windows version previously, you are going to have a rough start! So, far, I do not think it is as easy to navigate as the windows version. I am new to Mac though, but still, I would have thought it would be more similar than it is. Getting my files switched from windows to the Mac was not easy wither! I had to pay MAC $100 to get my PC files converted to the Mac because it was so complicated, so be aware of that. I hope the QB for Mac turns out to be as easy to use as the Windows version, but it is looking grim. Good luck! Rating:  - MiserableIntuit has treated Mac users as second-class for years and this release is one more example. There are dozens - maybe hundreds - of things this release of Quickbooks doesn't do that have been available in the Windows version for years. Example? You can't even sort a register in this version! From an accounting point of view...well, let's say it's a waste of money. If you want a professional accounting application for the Mac that most people can use with a little investment in learning, buy MYOB/AccountEdge. PLEASE do not waste your money on Quickbooks. Rating: - watch out for sunsetI am or was a QB 2004 PC user, FYI Intuit has a 3 year sunset policy that turns off all online features. (check website for a partial list) This includes little things like emailing invoices. Support stated that losing the ability to email was not stated in the sunset policy, but didn't care because it was no longer supported, so even if it was broke they wouldn't fix it. I was told by senior support that ALL products have a 3 year life and will die. - So if you need a long term program, look somewhere else, if you like keeping up to date then its does the job. Rating:  - Good not great.As a start up business I was looking for an accounting solution that would run on the IMAC. The only product that appeared to have all the features we were looking for was QB Pro 2007 for Mac. I will say that the 30 day free telephone callback is great. The accent from India was a bit hard to understand sometimes but those folks did an excellent job overall. Too bad the software is not more intuitive and help screens are so poor that I had to call support nearly everyday. The QB community and forum has been very helpful so far too. One item that QB does not seem to address is Sales Tax adjustments. My State like many others with a State Sales Tax offers a discount for a timely payment. Several postings on the forums have work arounds that they feel might do the trick but I did not buy this software to have to rethink or trick the software to handle such a simple mundane task. Time will tell if I should have purchased a PC based product to run on the I-MAC or just lowered myself to purchase a dedicated PC to run a PC based accounting package. Rating:  - A great program for the business owner that plans on never getting a new computer.This is a great program, but it has one EXTREMELY annoying issue that has resulted in my decision never to buy this product again. The issue is that if you get a new hard drive, a new computer, or reformat your hard drive, the program will be virtually unusable and unlockable until you go through a very complicated process that thus far has required me to call tech support (located in India) every single time because it is so complicated that it is impossible to remember. They put into place the most rigorous anti-piracy code I have ever seen in a piece of software. So rigorous that even the legal owner is locked out without a key. If you are a small business owner like me, you update your hard drive (either due to a crash or a new larger upgrade needed for additional storage) or you upgrade your system altogether on a fairly regular basis. How many business people never need to upgrade their hard drive or get a new computer? Well, buyers beware: if you have this program, you will be getting yourself into a nightmare if you decide to upgrade your hard drive or change systems. Out of the over $5,000 worth of software I own, this is the only program that causes me this headache. Time is money to a small business owner, and I just don't have 3 hours to spend on fixing this program every time I upgrade my system just because someone at this company has a bug up their rear end about software piracy. merely uninstalling and reinstalling this program is not sufficient. You have to go into about 5 different obscure folders on your computer and either change or delete esoteric bits of data that you can never find without the help of Indian tech support. Oh--and by the way: you only get a little while of free support. Every time after that it costs you money. next time I go to buy small business accounting software I will buy another program or I will go back to handwritten recordkeeping if there are no other decent programs available for Mac.
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