From: "John Beamish" 

Speaking of Quicken ...

other than Money, what are the Windows alternatives?

On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:18:16 -0400, /m  wrote:

>
> I'm looking to get Quicken and this newsreader working under Parallels
> (or VMWare).  At that point, about 95% of my usage will be on the
> MacMini.  The other pieces of the 95% are browsing and email.  Opera has
> released the Intel-capable Mac version, and for email I'll probably use
> the OS-X email client for my main accounts, and something like Eudora
> for my gaggle of secondary accounts.
>
> So far for me, the MacMini has been excellent for my media stuff.  The
> iLife apps which come with OS-X are very good.  iPhoto is especially
> excellent.
>
>  /m
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:03:40 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

> wrote:
>
>> Parallels has worked well for me with 2K but my needs for 2k are quite
>> simple on the mini.
>>
>> They have a good support forum at
>>
>> http://forum.parallels.com/index.php
>>
>> I'm still waiting for the rumored VMware though as I have several canned
>> apps that I'd like to transfer and VMware also quite a few preconfigured
>> apps for the dl
>>
>>
>> "/m"  wrote in message
>> news:gutca2prv714ndikckvomh7sdsv0got89c{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>> How's Parallels working for you?  I also equipped my Mac mini worth
>>> 2Gb,
>>> planning to use VMs.   I'd like to get this bulky Windows off my
>>> desktop...
>>>
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 08:58:11 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> George,
>>>>
>>>> Yep,  I have a Mac Mini in the living room for use as a media pc. I
>>>> configured mine with 2GB of RAM though as I'm using the Parallels
>>>> virtual
>>>> software  ( www.parallels.com ) to run Win 2k in place of using the
>>>> Apple
>>>> dual boot XP/wga stuff.
>>>>
>>>> In use the mini's worked quite well but I had had problems with the
>>>> scheduling of sleep mode ( doesn't always work for me) so now I just
>>>> schedule a daily power off/on cycle ( never fails ). I have had
>>>> several
>>>> hangs when I had the mini set to turn my plasma display off after
>>>> several
>>>> hours of idle time ( it would never wake the display up again ) so I
>>>> avoid
>>>> that now.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using the Apple wireless keyboard but ditched the Apple wireless
>>>> mouse
>>>> for Logitech 2-button ( makes life easier )
>>>>
>>>> Apple just released the 10.4.7 software update which I applied last
>>>> night
>>>> so
>>>> maybe the sleep/saver glitches are gone
>>>>
>>>> As a Mac neophyte I found the O'Reilly book 'Switching to the Mac
>>>> Tiger
>>>> Edition' by Progue and Goldstein quite useful
>>>>
>>>> I had some problems finding a usable 'universal'/intel AC3 codec and
>>>> finding
>>>> the usable DivX software ( had to use the beta ) but they've just
>>>> announce
>>>> the 'universal' version of 6.5.1 on 6/29 ( haven't tried it yet )
>>>>
>>>> I've been using http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/  and
>>>> http://www.versiontracker.com/macintel/ to locate software for the
>>>> mini.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "George Sherwood" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:44a6208c{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Rich,
>>>>>    Did I remember correctly that you recently bought a
Mac?  I am
>>>>> seriously moving in that direction and was wondering what  you
>>>>> purchased
>>>>> and how it has worked?  I was thinking of the Mac Mini
with 1GB RAM
>>>>> and
>>>>> 100 GB HardDrive.
>>>>>
>>>>> George
>>>>>
>>>>> "Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
>>>>> news:44a55c3b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> Tried to go onto the wga forum and received this
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your user acount has been banned. Visit here for more info.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> Naturally the link to visit has nothing to do with
the banning
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=communities
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I reckon they only wish happy news
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>

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