Quicken

indow pops open and the transfer "times out" extremely quickly and zero bytes get transferred. IE handles the whole thing nicely and even pushs the file over to Quicken automatically. ...

Check out Quicken 2004's reviews on Amazon. ...

Was this a refurbished machine? Did you buy it from Apple or a retailer?To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a demo/trial version of Quicken... It should have been the real deal... I think you should call Apple...

Just to be clear.... Quicken and QuickBooks are 2 completely different programs. ...

ha, I just contacted Apple and was informed that Quicken 2004 only ships with machines bought in the US. As I am in the UK this software is not included. ...

has never shipped with any Mac. The Quicken personal software, which may be Quicken 2004, should be in your Applications folder. Check the folder that has other installers if you don't see it immediately in list view. ...

interesting thread, in my experience I would have to say the mac experience is by FAR superior to windows. I have had my iMac for almost a year now, and I am glad to say it's never frozen, I've had one application unexpectedly quit (which used to be a common occurence on my PC) and that was Safari Beta. I experienced the beach ball twice in Jaguar, and I have not seen it yet...

Safari Entourage 04 MSN Messenger Word Photoshop Elements iTunes Occassionaly: Powerpoint iPhoto

I know my wife uses stuff like Netscape 7.1, iTunes 4.0.1 and Quicken 2003, but beyond that I'm not sure what else she uses or how she has her side set up. ...

The memory issue is tiny between the 12" PB and the 12" iBook. The both only have one SODIMM slot (the 15/17" PB has two). While Apple states that the most that will fit in an iBook is a 512M module, many places sell 1G SODIMMs that work in iBooks. So the RAM difference is really 1280M vs 1152M (the iBook has 128M on the board, the 12" PB has 256M on the board). Also the...