I have been using various Quicken incarnations since 1999 and was ( and still will be using) Quicken 2007.

I bought Quicken Essentials hoping for a native Intel program and I did indeed get that but...

1) I do not use Quicken for check writing do that didn't matter.

2) I do use it to follow stocks so that matters.

3) I do export to Excel for my accountant and that matters. I could find no way to do this is Essentials.

4) My file went from 6 meg to 27 meg(!!) for the same data and since I keep at least monthly backups, two daily backups and several other backups that matters. What before took up 30 megs now uses 135 megs and since I use a PGP virtual partition the difference matters.

5) I do not like how the reports are set up and especially that one has to accept their setup and modify them each and every time. There is no way to easily do much of what was easily done in Quicken 2007.

6) On my MacPro, Essentials was not faster than Quicken 2007 under Rosetta on general use.

So I shall continue to use Quicken 2007 and then switch to another manufacturers program when support for Rosetta is dropped.

OnyX 1.61 already pposted and solves the launch problem!

Wow!

Works well with 10.3.9 and does exactly what is claims to do.
Good responses from developer.