HI, I am going back and fourth on purchasing a thinkpad carbon pc or a macbook pro. i figure i am spending up to $2500 so I want the best laptop I can get. I know apple is more stable and you get better performance from the mackbook pro. But, I need to use windows version of quickbooks pro 2015. So I heard about Parallels. 1. Is this going to be an easy software to use or am is it going to have complications ? am I better off just sticking with a pc? quickbooks is really the only software I need windows for. 2. I would need to export quickbook documents to excel files - would I need to purchase windows version of Microsoft Office or purchase the MAC version? 3. also is exporting to pdf documents going to work? 4. Is windows 10 going to be compatable? should I wait for it to come out before making this purchase decision? Any help/suggestions is much appreciated.
Hi @kian, please find the answer to your questions below: 1. [Is this going to be an easy software to use or am is it going to have complications ? am I better off just sticking with a pc? quickbooks is really the only software I need windows for] Parallels Desktop application will give you an opportunity to start all of your Windows applications on your Mac. So you will need to create virtual machine and install the Windows operation system in it. (Like everyone does on real PC without any operation system) After that you will be able to install all of your applications on the Windows side and use it normally. 2 and 3 [I would need to export quickbook documents to excel files - would I need to purchase windows version of Microsoft Office or purchase the MAC version? also is exporting to pdf documents going to work?] Apps like Quickbooks or any other of this kind will work the same as a on the regular PC and you will be able to use all of the Quickbooks features (also like export documents to Excel or PDF) 4. [Is windows 10 going to be compatable? should I wait for it to come out before making this purchase decision?] If you purchased the Parallels Desktop 10 you will be able to download and install the Windows 10 Technical preview for free (using one of Parallels Desktop 10 features). After that you will be able to install the Quickbooks application and also the Microsoft Office applications too. But if you would like to check the compatibility of Windows 10 and Quickbooks, please contact the Quickbooks Support (They will be able to provide you with more detailed information about the Quickbooks app compatibility). Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
