I had Quicken 2003 installed on an E-Machine to keep my information offline until it quit working.

Samisue

I found an unopened Quicken 2003 for Mac on Ebay and tried to load it onto my ancient MacBook Pro. The specifications stated it would work on my MacBook that can no longer be updated, but the program does not load. Any advice would be appreciated!

UKR

Aren't / weren't the Emachines low-cost Windows computers?
What operating system did you use on the Emachine?
What Quicken version exactly did you use on the Emachine? Quicken for Windows? Quicken for Mac? What year?

What version of Mac OS are you running on the MacBook?

And you are trying to do what now?

jacobs

@UKR There was also a model for Macs called the eMac — "Education Mac" — from about 2002-2005. It was an all-in-one with a CRT monitor, so it was bulky and heavy! It used a PowerPC G4 chip. It could run on Mac OS 9.2.2 (the last pre-Unix-based OS) and Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.4; the latest models could run 10.5, but nothing beyond that because later operating systems required Macs with an Intel chip.

MacBook Pros have been around since 2006, and from the start were computers with Intel chips. So Intel-powered Macs didn't exist when Quicken Mac 2003 was produced, it can't run natively on a MacBook Pro. But I would think, without doing more research, that an old Mac operating system like Snow Leopard (10.6) with Rosetta installed should be able to run a program like Quicken 2003.

@Samisue What version of MacBook Pro do you have, and more importantly, what version of operating system do you have installed?