Sage accounts on a Mac

[Rob Farmer]

I need to start running sage accounts. The last thing I need is another computer cluttering the place up and being as my Mrs is going to look after the books it would make sense to use her mac.

Is it possible to successfully run Sage on a Mac and still keep all of the features?

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

Try this link

http://www.sjsoftware.co.uk/products/sage-for-mac/sage-for-mac-product.html?uilang=1&gclid=CJTG37jD9LQCFTDMtAodogwAnw

 

[ymfb]

You need parallels or similar or run the sage on a virtual machine.

 

[stolzy]

Works fine under VMWare

 

[Rob Farmer]

Try this link

I spotted that but it then goes onto say it needs to run under parallels. Reading the reviews on parallels it suggests its very memory hungry.

 

[GrinningGSer]

Parallels is only using significant memory when you are using it: Do the sage stuff, then close parallels. FYI parallels takes 15 secs to boot to XP on my MacbookPro.

 

[tuftywhite]

Rob,

Does it have to be Sage?

If so, I use VMWare on my Mac for all windows stuff. VMWare and windows then just becomes another app on the Mac. Switch it on, do your stuff, switch it off.

Call me if you want to chat it through.

 

[ianf]

Parallels will wire down the ram you specify for the vm while you are using it, to stop osx paging it out if you run too much other stuff. A 1gb vm with xp or w7 runs ok, I've been using it like that to run some legacy stuff at work. Shut the vm down and it goes back to the free pool. If you have 4gb on the physical machine 1-2 gb for the vm will be fine. Does sage recommend a certain spec to run in in terms of os and ram?

VMware fusion will be doing the same.

 

[Rob Farmer]

Rob,

Does it have to be Sage?

If so, I use VMWare on my Mac for all windows stuff. VMWare and windows then just becomes another app on the Mac. Switch it on, do your stuff, switch it off.

Call me if you want to chat it through.

Yes it has to be Sage. My accountant uses it and I've got the Mrs sorted with some training with them.

I may take you up on the phone call

 

[Rob Farmer]

Parallels will wire down the ram you specify for the vm while you are using it, to stop osx paging it out if you run too much other stuff. A 1gb vm with xp or w7 runs ok, I've been using it like that to run some legacy stuff at work. Shut the vm down and it goes back to the free pool. If you have 4gb on the physical machine 1-2 gb for the vm will be fine. Does sage recommend a certain spec to run in in terms of os and ram?

VMware fusion will be doing the same.

Thanks Ian.

I guess the obvious thing to do is just whack VMWare or parallels on the mac and give it a go. Just didn't want to Parallels on to find it's a nightmare.

 

[cookie]

i use vm ware and it works very well. had it running on my macbook pro with 2GB RAM, but 4GB is better. no experience of sage though.

i also employ nLite to create a very stripped down version of XP to save space, and 'cos i don't need most of the features.

 

[ymfb]

I run parallels on my iMac, which has 16 gb of ram. I use it to run AutoCAD LT and SAge, is there an alternative which uses less ram?

 

[uncle dick]

Yes it has to be Sage. My accountant uses it

Written by accountants for accountants. Avoid if at all possible. Our business has been using it for 6 years and nothing is ever where you expect it to be.

 

[stolzy]

Written by accountants for accountants. Avoid if at all possible. Our business has been using it for 6 years and nothing is ever where you expect it to be.

An accounts progam written by accountants for accountants.

Who'd have guessed

 

[Fluffmeister]

I run my accounts on an iMac using Sage, running in VMware fuson and an XP-SP3 Virtual machine.

Get's my vote

 

[uncle dick]

An accounts progam written by accountants for accountants.

Who'd have guessed

I'd much rather have an accounts programme specified by accountants but written for business people by software engineers