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Does Sage 50 operate on Mac OS X computers?

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Running Sage 50 Accounting on a Mac Operating System.

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There’s no release of Sage 50 Accounting that will run on the Mac OS. You can, however, use our web-hosted Sage 50 Cloud, which can be used on virtually any computer or device.

For Macintosh computers that have Intel microprocessors and the latest edition of Mac OS X:

  • Boot Camp allows a Mac to run a Windows Operating System (OS) natively. Sage 50 Accounting can be installed in such environments as normal. Purchase your Windows OS separately

For Mac OS X computers equipped with either Intel or PowerPC microprocessors:

  • Sage 50 works in a Terminal Server/Terminal Services environment. This configuration requires the download and installation of the free Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client for Mac OS X.

Virtual Windows on a Mac:

  • It isn’t recommended to operate Sage 50 Accounting in either one of the virtualization solutions available (Example: Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare Fusion) on Mac OS X computers equipped with Intel microprocessors. You may notice a significant decrease in performance and there’s a greater potential for data loss or corruption

 NOTE: Sage 50 can run on Parallels in a virtual environment. However, Sage doesn't support the setup, configuration, or troubleshooting of Windows Parallels on a Mac OS. There’s also an issue with installing the E-mail Writer on MacBooks with ARM processors.  

 

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