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| 9 April 2006 | |
| This isn't a "tax" question, but I am curious if anyone (1) uses a Mac and (2) uses Lacerte running in windows on a Mac?
I want to switch to a Mac, but can only do so if the tax software operates efficiently. Any Mac users? | |
| 9 April 2006 | |
| Ex Mac user, sadly. But the news on the new Macs with the WinHell chips are that they can install Windows XP from the original install disks. Apple won't support it, but it does work. News just yesterday. | |
| 16 January 2007 | |
| With the new Intel Core 2 Duo Chips on the MACs, you can dual boot OSX and WINOS.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ I have it running schweeet. But my XP license cost me approx $70 (OEM - search around for those deals). | |
| 27 April 2007 | |
| In response to your inquiry re Lacerte on a MAC, I also am interested in this. Your initial inquiry was in 2006. Have you purchased a MAC with the Intel chip and if so heve you been successful running Lacerte and with which Windows emulation software?
Thanks | |
| 24 July 2007 | |
| Woohoo!
I bought a new imac and am running Lacerte successfully via Parallels software. I allocated 30 gigs to the VM. Boy does it run fast! | |
| 26 September 2007 | |
| Skylax, how's Mac, Lacerte and Parallels working together so far? I want to buy a Mac but Lacerte was holding me back until I saw your post. I would love to hear that it is still working beautifully! Do you have Parallels 3.0? | |
Paul.scott (talk|edits) said: | 9 April 2008 |
| I have gotten Lacerte working correctly on Macbook Pros using Windows XP and Parallels. As a community however we really need to press Intuit to offer Lacerte for OS X Natively. I have found a number of Accounting and Tax firms who use Lacerte and are using this solution which is a bit of a work around. I would like to start a petition of Lacerte users to let Intuit know a OS X Native version is important to us. If you would like to partisipate in the petition just write me at paul.scott@mac.com and I will put a page and start collecting names. | |
| 10 April 2008 | |
| I have a beautiful MAC sitting in a box. I had intended to do this pre-tax season & there were numerous delays & I wasn't brave enough to try as tax season got closer. | |
| 21 April 2008 | |
| I just finished up my tax season on a MacBook Pro using Parallels. Before Apple came out with Leapord V 10.5, I had trouble keeping a wireless internet connection. And there is still some printing problems here and there. But overall it worked out just fine. I have a very small CPA firm and use my laptop and cell phone to do my work, although I have desktops as well - my laptop is the "key" component in my practice. Personally, i did it because I have clients that use quicken and quickbooks for the mac, as well as clients who use quicken and quickbooks for the PC. Now, I have the same Mac software as my clients and the same PC software as my clients.
But, I will have to admit. I really know very little about operating the mac side of my computer - other than Quicken and Quickbooks. That is my post-tax-season assignment. If anyone has suggestions, I am willing to hear them out. BILL | |
Paul.scott (talk|edits) said: | 29 October 2008 |
| It is time we all start coordinating calls to Intuit and show them how many of us are working on Macs and would benefit from a Mac version of Lacerte. I have also contacted Thompson about their PPC tools and how important it would be to see them on the Mac as well. | |
| 9 January 2009 | |
| I would love to see a MAC version of Lacerte, as I currently run it via Parallels on my MAC. I also would like to see the MAC verison of Quickbooks be able to work on a network - currently the data file you work with must be located on the local MAC, and not on a network server. I talked to Quickbooks about this to no avail. | |
| 23 October 2009 | |
| I would love to see a native MAC version of ANY professional tax preparation software. (I'm assuming that the situation has not changed since the January 2009 post.) I guess I should tell this to the nice Pro-Series salespeople that keep calling me.
If someone knows of a program that will run on the MAC OS, could you let us know? Thanks, Maureen | |
| 24 October 2009 | |
| I received a notice from Intuit (I believe) stating that they are working on a web based program. I have also heard of another company that does a web based package. I want to say that one of the really highend packages is web based. I kind of like the idea of a web based program, you could sit down at any computer anywhere and get to work - as long as your Internet connection is working. | |
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