

exporting it to Excel to do further processing.). This "sounds good." But the Mac version of QB really has a lot of holes in it, particularly if your functions include analysis of the data in something other than QuickBooks (e.g. The alternative of course is to switch to the Mac version of QB and not have to do the PC emulation at all. This costs system resources, and will not be as fast and responsive as running it on a PC. But understand, that means you're supporting an entire Windows environment, on your Mac, so that when you're running QB, your computer is in some sense pretending to be a Windows PC.

Things like Parallels, VMWare, Virtual Box, etc. Most responses are showing how she can continue using the same (Windows) version on a Mac, due to her presumed familiarity with the look and feel of the product. The original post indicated she was running QB on Windows currently and wanted to start using a Mac. It's a browser-based system, so you can run it on any platform. If you're already familiar with the tools you use in Windows then I'd personally stick with Windows all things being equal - you'll have a much broader range of customization options and pricing.Quickbooks Online is an entirely different animal. "Loving photography and producing music" does jack for you if you can't use the tools and you end up being the guy with the Mac who doesn't do anything but browse Reddit with it. This happens especially if I've got both systems running because I'm working on more than one thing. I don't know how many times I forget that its "command+c" instead of "ctrl+c" and wiped out some paragraph I was typing. So - in your situation - have you ever actually used any of the tools you want to use on a Mac? Learning a new OS while learning new tools is going to be a pain in the ass especially if you're going to be under a full course load. Again, its just easier to run games on Windows (though I've gotten stuff to work on my work laptop through Wine and there are more and more games being s probably better to not have those kind of distractions on my work machine).

I have a few Windows hosts at home they're all gaming rigs. I don't do any sort of photo-processing or anything like that honestly my company offers Mac or Windows laptops, and the Mac makes my job easier in most cases. I also like the shell better and it meshes easier with the ton of linux based systems I have to use daily. I use a Mac at work, I'll run a windows VM if I need a windows-only tool (some of my storage vendors are still heavily windows based and I have a ton of CIFS).
