Patzer said that Intuit has been working “closely with Apple” to potentially get Rosetta (or parts of it) running in Lion. Well there is some, potentially, good news for those users.

However because of its lack of some features, most critically bill pay and detailed investment tracking, it may not be enough. He explains that porting the code over would take a significant amount of work, which is why they recently decided to develop Quicken Essentials, a brand new app developed on the Intel code.įor many Quicken Essentials or perhaps another Intuit owned service,, would suffice in replacing Quicken for Mac 2007. Patzer says it “has many intricacies – including its own custom-built database engine that are very much PowerPC specific”. The Mac Observer talked to the Aaron Patzer of Quicken to find out a bit more about the situation and found that PowerPC codebase is the foundation for Quicken for Mac 2007. As it stands it Quicken relies on Rosetta, an engine that allows PowerPC code to run on Intel Macs, but Lion removes support for Rosetta – rendering Quicken for Mac unable to run on Lion. With Lion launching next month, some users who rely on Quicken for Mac 2007 may want to hold off updating for a while.