Microsoft access?

ng93 · 13 Sep 2011 at 18:52

Hi,

I need a database program for college. Currently running Access 2010 on Windows 7 via Boot Camp, but the **** touchpad driver is doing my head in :mad:

, and as afaik Access is Windows only i'm looking for a Mac alternative. Preferably free as i'm a student

, but willing to pay a few quid if it's really worth it.

TIA,
ng93

canson1991 · 13 Sep 2011 at 19:32

This isn't much help to your thread, but here is a link that maybe useful to you.

https://www.dreamspark.com/

MrMoonX · 13 Sep 2011 at 19:35

ng93 said:
Hi,

I need a database program for college. Currently running Access 2010 on Windows 7 via Boot Camp, but the **** touchpad driver is doing my head in , and as afaik Access is Windows only i'm looking for a Mac alternative. Preferably free as i'm a student , but willing to pay a few quid if it's really worth it.

TIA,
ng93

buy a mouse so you don't have to use the touchpad? lol

ng93 · 13 Sep 2011 at 20:48

canson1991 said:
This isn't much help to your thread, but here is a link that maybe useful to you.

https://www.dreamspark.com/

Nout for Mac there, but thanks for the link.

MrMoonX said:
buy a mouse so you don't have to use the touchpad? lol

Thats plan B lol but would prefer a software solution.

Skyboat · 13 Sep 2011 at 22:44

ng93 said:
would prefer a software solution.

Use Parallels Desktop to boot your Boot Camp partition inside a VM, mouse movement is much more native to OS X even inside Windows via this.

shine · 14 Sep 2011 at 11:25

If you can change Access with another DB then try MySQL - it has native OSX apps.

ng93 · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:46

shine said:
If you can change Access with another DB then try MySQL - it has native OSX apps.

Can change to any software, so long as it has similar features to access. Had a look around and found Bento, is this any good? TIA