QuickBooks

To my knowledge QuickBooks has never been bundled with any Mac. ...

Not sure if Quickbooks is on the installer disk of panther but if you are sure.. ...

I feel your pain. Here's my advice. Do a clean install of the entire system. (Do not enable the extra fonts unless you really need the foreign languages) Remove the following fonts and replace them with their Postscript equivalents: Hard Drive > Library > Fonts Optima.dfont

Apple Powerbook 15" - 1.5gHz - Tiger clean installed (OSX10.4.1)- $1800 OBO!

CONDITION: Great condition, a few small scratches on bottom, small scuff on top, but nothing affecting performance! This laptop looks clean and like new, no screen problems or hardware woes. Still under warranty for just a while longer. Check out all the features and over $1000 in software...

Initial Question: Since installing OSX 10.3, I cannot print out text from Illustrator 10 via my laser printer, a Brother HL-5170DN. I can print text with other applications---MS Word, Quickbooks---but with Illustrator 10, I get pages of gibberish code at the top of endless printed pages. If I convert text to outlines---no problem---but that's no real solution, as I cannot edit...

Add to this the fact that WINE will almost certainly appear on OS X, and I may not even need Windows at all for things like Quickbooks and other programs with either substandard Mac versions or no Mac version at all... ...

InDesign is like glass. Like Quark used to be back in the day, only now with all the transparency effects and antialiased type. With highest quality preview, it's quick, but a little choppy on the high res stuff, as one would expect. Keynote test video (9 seconds long, 832x624) took 6 seconds to render as MPEG4 (320x240 30 fps). Exporting a multipass h264 uses about 90%...

Well, 6 months later, I can report that we got the PC and a copy of QuickBooks Basic. ...

The worst part about my switch to mac was dealing with quickbooks. The Mac version is compariable to quickbooks 2001 for the pc. Quickbooks for the mac still doesn't have credit card support! I ended up getting a copy of virtual PC and run quickbooks 2004 that way. It sucks but what can you do. ...

Go do a Get Info on your Applications folder etc, as mentioned by davidbrit, its most likely that it has a plethora of preinstalled goodies. If its a new one, you probably have this stuff installed, which could account for the amount of HD used: iLife 05 (requires 4.3 gig if you install everything!) QuickBooks Art Directors...