QuickBook on the fly. Is the Acer AOD250 the way to go?
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You'll have to have an extrenal CD/or DVD drive to do the installation. You can buy one on Amazon for a very small price. After that, you will NOT need to have the external optical drive plugged in.
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Mine was "good to go" - I had a second laptop and I used my URL to copy files, documents, etc to the Dell. My problem came much later. It was a VERY good laptop for what I used it for. I am away from home days at a time - I wanted a second laptop so I could keep one with me - leave the other at home. Mostly e-mail, on-line banking, games. I had my D610 about a year (I purchased it "refurbished"). About a month ago I stared getting error messages and freezes ..then it crashed. I took it to the shop and they could not fix it. While I had it I used it A LOT and it was a very good second laptop. I am now considering a NEW ACER notebook for about $200. My first was an ACER and it is nearly 8 years old and very reliable.
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ABSOLUTELY. It lugs down markedly when multi-tasking, but if speed isn't your whole world, it's fine. Right now, I'm running about 20 tabs in chrome, a few in explorer, quicken 2013, word, excel, AND a tiny 3rd-party program and it's chugging along!
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DO NOT use Quickbooks unless you absolutely have to. I tried it, read 2 books, watched video training, and hired a Quickbooks trainer for 2 sessions to help me set up the software and STILL could not keep track of finances properly. Dual column accounting is nice if you are an accountant. If you are a regular human being, just use Quicken Home and Business. I have 3 employees plus myself. Quicken Home and Business does EVERYTHING I need it to do, and is a breeze to learn and use.
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I use it with InDesign and Photoshop a lot and for the most part it is pretty speedy--I tend to have lots of photos and a couple of documents open all at once. If 16 gigabytes RAM had been an option I would have gotten it, but I haven't had any problems so far.
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Read the reviews on the 2012 vs. and I think you will see that the 2011 vs. may not have the issues that the newer vs. does. I have used QuickBooks Pro in the past, beginning in 2002 and the last year was 2008. I was very impressed with the ease of use and the ability to make corrections to posting without having to do journal entries, ie. just fix the posting. The payroll, when I was doing it came with the annual upgrade for free, so I upgraded annually. There was no limit on the number of employees, or if there was we never reached it. Our highest employee count was probably twenty. But having read the reviews for 2012 I am wondering if I want to install for my new start-up company. Maybe the 2011 for now and see what else is out there before we have employees.
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Nope. But I like the windows 8 since it is much more convenient for me to review pages. By the way, the machine I bought a month ago is running really good. I am an architect, and I can run five software at the same time without any problem. Strongly recommended.
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I'm using a Toshiba Win 8.1. It's above my paygrade to answer for Chromebook, etc
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Definitely. There's more than enough storage to store QuickBooks and it should run normally, as this is a fairly powerful computer.
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B. Haynes, yes, your info. helped! Thank you so much. I'm not really interested in anything heavier or with faster battery run down or a smaller keyboard, so...good points! Oh, and I don't want to risk having to kick myself later. LOL Money-wise, the rewards points I currently have from my Amazon Visa card should pay for most of it. :-)
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Thank you for the resource. I did order the computer from Amazon. Actually when I thought about, I rarely used the DVD drive in my Acer notebook. An outboard one will be just fine for my purposes.
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Ohh, interesting. Thanks for the quick reply! I think I can likely deal because the price sure is right. I wonder if anyone more experienced in this area knows if Apple (or Acer) is fairly reliable about getting proper drivers out?
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Buy the MBA, you will not regret it. I see no advantage of having a touch screen interface on your laptop. MBA is lightning fast and a real joy to use.
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thank u. any advise? i want something for my lap at home and a user friendly and is portable
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I have found several people online who say they are using QB Pro 2011 with Windows 8. There seem to be some problems with printing the pdf but I quickly found people who had found ways to work around the issue. Here is the workaround: I have had this issue and found that by changing the Shortcut under the Compatibility Tab, tick Run as Administrator fixed it. Also run the QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic Tool can help as it looks at ports that are not open in the firewall and opens them for you. That said, if you really want to be sure before making the investment, Laura F. Hoak is correct and your best bet is to contact Intuit customer service and they should be able to answer any and all of your questions regarding their product.
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Hi Sandy, My Acer came preloaded with a trial of Office. Once the trial is up you can purchase the full version. Is there a Microsoft application in particular that you are looking for? Let me know, I can check to see if it came on mine. I have been super happy with my Acer. It gets heavy use as my "office."
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Yes it is, but if you want a product with REAL power buy Quickbooks if you can afford it.