Comments on: ACT and Mac

By: Marshall Spevak

Marshall Spevak — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000

Thanks for the sharing info site. I’ve been using RDC for a while now. The only thing on the PC is basically ACT and few other barebones things. It still runs like a PC (Piece of Crap) You would think that the popularity of OS X that ACT would come out with a MAC version. You know, the ACT for the web should be far from ACT OS X. Its based on unix. What about Goldmine? Do they make that for MAC?

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:56:23 +0000

This is all very valuable to me, thanks, having just done a google for “ACT for mac users”. I’ve been a mac user for about a year, having bought an iMac originally for home use, but having recently begun to use it for business having set up my own company. Previously I have always used PCs for work … for as long as PCs have been around! On my mac I’m now using Entourage for emails/addressbook/calendar/tasks, etc. This synchronises brilliantly with my pocketpc using 3rd party software pocketmac. All of this is perfect and I can recommend it. Unfortunately Entourage does not provide what I need for a customer&prospects database. I’m almost admitting defeat and thinking about customising an Excel spreadsheet for my database needs, because I can’t find anything suitable for the Mac. (Word/Excel/PPoint are part of the Entourage package.) But just to be clear, I would never go back to PC. Any insight/recommendations for a mac friendly customer&prospects dbase (ideally one which is compatible with Entourage/Word) would be hugely appreciated. (Note - my website address is given as requested, but not gone live yet). Cheers. Donna.

By: Jef

Jef — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:09:48 +0000

Wow ! I'm not alone. I can't stand PC's. I am a huge Mac fan. I have been using ACT for years and years. My solution has been to keep ACT 2.8 on my G3 even though everything else I do is on OSX.

I've also looked at Day Lite and Now Up to Date but didn't get excited enough to change. Sometimes I'm with you. I wish never discovered ACT.

I run another program on Virtual PC and I don't want to add another. It's very slow.

What about Filemaker ? I don't know much about it, but is that customizable?

By: TjL

TjL — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:42:03 +0000

Entourage is the Mac equivalent of Outlook, and it's quite a good app. I used it for awhile. About the only thing I remember really missing was a unified INBOX that would show all the messages in the various INBOXes of my accounts,

I never used Outlook in Windows very much.

I would absolutely switch to Mac again if I had it to do over again. OS X makes me feel empowered, that the more I learn about it, the more I can do.

XP made me feel like I had to learn more and more just to keep keep it running.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:14:59 +0000

Is Microsoft Outlook even an option? I am considering switching to a Mac from Windows, but do not know how I am going to replace ACT. What do you think about Outlook? Also, would you still make the change if you had to do it again?

By: jimbrauer

jimbrauer — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:05:16 +0000

Hmmm... we sound so much alike, I have tried using palm software but really miss ACT!

there has got to be a solution.