Each time a new operating system comes out, I look at what I no longer need and start trying to clean house. One optional install of Snow Leopard is Rosetta which lets people run PowerPC applications. Why would anyone need this when applications have been Intel native or Universal binaries for years? For me, the loan application that has me installing Rosetta is Quicken. I’m now on Quicken 2007, but it still isn’t Intel native. Looks like I have to wait until February or so of some year (maybe next) to get a version of Quicken that runs natively on an architecture (Intel) that has been on the Mac platform for 3.5 years.
Is there a better financial app out there that reads Quicken data and handles my portfolio? I have yet to find one.
Have you seen mint.com?
Hadn’t seen that before; it looks interesting, but providing a read-only view into my finances is only partially helpful. I may be a bit OCD about my finances and accounts, but I reconcile all my accounts and enter all my transactions by hand (so that I can verify that I’m not overcharged and that my accounts haven’t been compromised).