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| From: Intuit, Inc.
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $67.25
You Save: $2.74 (4%)
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 3208
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 295252
Model: 283652
UPC: 028287011113
EAN: 0028287011113
ASIN: B0009XB160
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Comprehensive personal financial management software created for the Mac | | • | Track expenses and manage cash; schedule bill paying with iCal | | • | Save more with outflow management; optimize investments and monitor portfolio | | • | View complete financial picture in minutes; create visual record of inventory | | • | Downloading banking, credit card, and investment info directly into Quicken |
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Product Description
With Quicken 2006 you'll have every aspect of your personal finances under complete control. Organize your money and uncover new savings potential and make teh correct spending decision every time. You'll get more out of your money while saving it more effectively. Optimized report assistant lets you have a readabale, easy-to-follow hard copy of your savings, investments and more Plan out for your pension or life on a fixed income, with just a few clicks Export your reports into Excel spreadsheets instantly transmission of transfers, debits, standing orders and date transfers Take care of your finances more easily with online banking - simple transmission of transfers, debits, standing orders and more
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 A very bad upgrade August 6, 2005
Andrew D. Rodney (Santa Fe, NM United States)
172 out of 175 found this review helpful
I've been using Quicken on the Mac since 1988. This version is a major mess from a pretty dysfunctional company. I purchased via the web on 08/01/05. The version was very buggy from the start, crashing on launch virtually every time (under Tiger, if you tell it to relaunch after a crash two times, it automatically trashes a plist and Quicken would then launch until the next time). Many users reported this on the Quicken forums. Not an isolated issue. On 08/5/05 Intuit to their credit updated a patch which seems to have fixed the problem. But this shows how poor Intuit's Q&E and beta testing is. Worse, the company will NOT honor the rebate for those who purchased the product on 08/01 (rebate starts on 08/02). Again, these guys are not thinking!
I plan to use the 30 day money back guarantee and get all my money back. However, I can't go back to Quicken 2005 since all my data files were updated for 2006. I plan to purchase the box here in Amazon so I can at least get my rebate but this is really silly. I don't need a box or manual and Intuit is silly for not simply honoring the rebates for people who purchased the day they released it.
Is the update (it's not really an upgrade) worth it? Well they did speed up downloading transactions (it doesn't download all the institutions every time). The .Mac backup is nice and it works but is that worth $40? There are still bugs even beyond the patch fix. Command Q doesn't always quit the product. When you place your account windows on screen where you wan them, they do not always remain in place after you relaunch. The command to check for updates doesn't work (it pops a dialog saying you need to be connected to the web which I am). So if you're happy with the version you're on, I'm not sure this is money well spent.
Shame, this used to be a fantastic Mac product.
Phoning It In August 9, 2005
Scott K (Phoenix, AZ United States)
144 out of 145 found this review helpful
Several years ago, Intuit announced that they were going to discontinue Quicken for the Mac. After a personal phone call from Steve Jobs, the product was saved. Unfortunately, all development work must have still stopped at that time.
Quicken for the Mac has not had a noteworthy upgrade in years. If you are recent "switcher" from a PC to Mac, take note that the Mac version of Quicken does not hold a candle to the PC version. They are quite different products. Quicken for the Mac looks and acts like a product from 1998.
It's too bad because I love my Mac in every way. I just with *someone* made a decent personal finance software product for it.
It will disappoint Macintosh owners. May 29, 2006
Ert (Somerville, MA, USA)
53 out of 53 found this review helpful
I'm a software engineer, and I've been a Quicken for Macintosh user for 10 years now, religiously accumulating data on every financial transaction I've performed in the last decade. Quicken 2006 is the fourth release of the program I've used. I use Quicken because I want to track my finances, back in 1995 it was the best choice, and at the time it did what I needed. I stuck with Quicken because it was always easier to upgrade to a new release every 3 years than search for other options, and occasionally I would get a free version when I upgraded my computer. I stayed with Quicken through the years they said they were not going to develop for the Mac platform anymore, and through their return to Macintosh support following the popularity of the iMac.
Quicken has got worse, not better, over the years. Intuit has focused most of their energies towards shiny new features for a dwindling portion of their user base in an attempt to encourage users to upgrade. They neglect the user interface, but more importantly they have introduced bugs in the basic functioning of the program: I was prompted to write this review because their Budgeting functions incorrectly total the budget categories. Yes, I'm talking about a bug in the central goal of the budgeting functions, basic arithmetic. I seriously almost accepted a budget I had written before realizing that it was off by hundreds of dollars per month.
In past releases, I have suffered through UI bugs that make it nigh-impossible to get to information I wanted because of scroll bars that are too small to allow clicking on the correct portions of them. Functions have been unavailable because UI bugs have incorrectly made buttons unclickable. The customer support is terrible. Show-stopper bugs literally take years to be fixed. Many of the things that I want to do habitually -- generate graphs and reports, for example -- are possible but cumbersome and annoying because of the number of windows I need to navigate through to accomplish my goal.
The major development of the last few years, integration with online banks and brokerages, is generally a couple of years behind the PC version. I have *usually* been unable to get information from my accounts using Quicken's new features, even though my bank says that they work with Quicken. When pressed, it is revealed that they don't work with the Macintosh version.
I give the product two instead of one star because it does do the central functions you expect it to, tracking a checkbook for example. Quicken is definitely better than nothing at all. But I've finally decided that it's time for me to choose either MoneyDance or iBank and shift to a new program with developers that are responsive to complaints.
Terrible August 9, 2005
J. Lin (Pasadena, CA USA)
49 out of 49 found this review helpful
Nearly no improvements with all the bugs intact and more. The software crashes 9 out of 10 times upon launch (until you apply the R2 patch). DO NOT upgrade!!! Stick with 2005/2004/2003. In fact, I don't see much difference between 2006 and 2003, except the money they took from me and my time lost dealing with old and new bugs.
The way I see it, Intuit owe me money and an apology.
Is there another program for mac out there? March 6, 2006
busterv (Arizona)
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
I used Microsoft Money for years, which made me cringe a bit because of my extreme dislike of Microsoft. I finally wised up and switched to mac which led me to quicken. I thought I would like it but it is awful.
I've had crashes, cannot change print settings for reports and the online help is decent but takes forever.
Don't buy this! I'm ready to go back to my checkbook and pen.
Unless there is another program out there that actually does the rudimentary tasks I need!
EDIT:
After posting this review I did the following (this is from my review of Moneydance):
I looked into three options: Liquid Ledger, iBank and Moneydance. After reading all I could I bought iBank and spent three days setting up my accounts and trying to figure it out.
iBank was a huge improvement over Quicken, but there was no tech support, I had troubles printing my accounts (unless I reduced the columns so that I could fit it on a page, but then I couldn't read what was in those columns!) and it just wasn't intuitive enough for me.
I am probably in the intermediate range of computer users, and I feel certain that someone with more experience than myself would find iBank just fine.
Since it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do (or rather, since I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to do) I decided to buy Moneydance and see if it was better. I think it is an oustanding program -- very easy to set up and use. I was able to set up all my accounts in a morning, where in iBank I was still working on the fundamentals at that point in time. In addition, I have been able to easily configure it how I want it to look.
I still have more to learn about Moneydance. The documentation is a bit less than I'd like, but they are working on more lengthy explanations which hopefully will be out shortly. Even with their overly short instructions I have found no roadblocks. I would give it five stars if there were more and better instructions. Like I said, though, that appears to be arriving shortly.
Another benefit is their chat forums where you can leave questions or, as I have done, search for earlier questions about the same issues. It's a great resource and provides access to the company itself since the programmers seem to be the ones monitoring some of the forums.
I really like this product very much. I found it fairly simple to set up (as simple as I would hoped it would be, anyway) and easy to use. It is, to me, a great alternative to Quicken and I'd look into it as an alternative to iBank as well.
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