“I honestly thought there would never come a time where I would buy a Mac. Ever,” Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com and billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, reports via his blog.
“Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster. I had grown accustomed to my PC freezing every now and then. Enter Vista and my PC was frozen more often than it was working. The biggest culprit was MicroSoft Outlook,” Cuban writes.
“I had gotten to the point where I was embarrassed to be a PC owner,” Cuban writes.
“So a few months ago I made the executive decision to buy a MacBook to replace my laptop,” Cuban writes. “I haven’t looked back.”
“Its not that there aren’t hassles with the Mac. There are two. One there isn’t a version of Outlook for the Mac. As someone who has more than 10 years and gigabytes worth of emails in multiple outlook files, the concept of exporting and importing won’t fly. So I am keeping my PC Desktop purely to download my emails into Outlook so I have a master database. But I only do so after deleting unimportant emails from the server using my Macbook,” Cuban writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Mark, meet Little Machines’ $10 Outlook to Mac (O2M). Buh-bye, so-called “hassle” number one. Please dispose of that PC in an environmentally sound manner.
Cuban continues, “The 2nd problem is the lack of the right mouse click. I know it’s a Mac thing to only have one button, but it’s a hassle. Sure there are work arounds, none of which are quick and easy for a longtime PC user.”
MacDailyNews Take: Mark, meet any USB mouse, including Apple’s Mighty Mouse, and also say “Hello” to your MacBook’s System Preferences’ Keyboard and Mouse pane where you can find the option to “Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click” under “Trackpad.” Click the box, Mark. Some “work around,” huh? What’s not “quick and easy” about that, even for a longtime PC sufferer? So, buh-bye, so-called “hassle” number two. We’re now down to zero hassles on Mark Cuban’s Mac.
Cuban continues, “I’m not an Apple fanboy, but I love me some MacBook!”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Mark, you “Apple fanboy,” you (even if you won’t admit it)!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
Mark Cuban is retarded, and can’t be taught any new tricks at this point because he is an “old dog.”
Christ. The Mac is now officially “over.” And I’ve been here since ’84.
SideTrack FTW! Much better than using 2 fingers.
My Macbook Pro has a right click
Oiyoi!!!!
the number one pet peeve i have is people who still say macs have no right click…
MDN: “hands” – as in “your hands have fingers in which can right click – even on a mac”…
I think there will come a time when Cuban will want many of his statements redacted.
It really makes me sick reading again and again the old idiocy about the one button, left/right click. By now you really have to be retarded to still drivel about those.
Mark, good you FINALLY got to the Mac (ehmm, what took you that long, by the way) but c’mon…. what the heck are you talking about with your clicks. They are only in your and your ex-buddy sufferers Windows computer illiterate folks.
Go easy on him, guys, he hasn’t been looking for work-arounds for the past several years. Just because we all know that any USB mouse or track-ball will work with a Mac – AND update it to a two (or three, or more) button system – doesn’t mean that anyone whose been batting at malware for years has a clue about such things. As for Outlook, it’s way past time to dump 99% of that clutter, or back it up for when the Feds request a copy.
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Mark, you forgot problem number 3: You can’t use a Zune with a MAC. This is HUGE! The iPod fad is fading fast and the Zune is just about to take over and you got a MAC? What a dork.
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Mac has Outlook, it’s called Entourage and comes with the Office Suite. Works very well for our Macs on this MS network. It actually has some nice features that Outlook doesn’t have like one-click junk mail marking and a a scroll bar that actually scrolls.
Mark Cuban sucks! GO BACK TO YOUR WINDOWS VISTA AND STOP JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON!
I find it a little annoying that the Mighty Mouse ships with the new Macs but with the right click assigned to a different function that the normally expected perhavior of a right click.
To “right click” on a Macbook just double tab with two fingers.
Mark, you forgot problem number 3: You can’t use a Zune with a MAC. —Zune Tang
That’s not a “problem,” my boy. That’s a benefit!
Never have I been so ashamed to be a Mac user as when ALGORE joined the board of directors and–now–when Mark Cuban bought a MacBook. Nouveau riche, thy name is Cuban; thy idiocy is legion and legend.
Gawd, but I hate that guy. Time to find some sand to hide in.
Please, please, please MDN, no more stories that mention that showboating, egotistical, no-talent rich-boy twat Mark Cuban.
Go back to spewing your irrational, insane hatred for all things google/youtube/freedom, and leave the Mac platform alone.
Honestly, I’d be less offended if Enderle switched to a Mac.
I love that zune tang’s back and posting. Cracks me up.
But seriously, this Cuban guy’s a billionaire and he doesn’t even buy a MBP? either that or he doesn’t know the difference between a MB and a MBP.
Aww, diddums…
Does little OctoberMac have to go all the way into system preferences to assign a different function to the factory default. Wow, that must be a real drag…
It’s amazing how many new Mac users think the Mighty Mouse or the MacBook trackpad does not do the right-click, just because they don’t see a physical second button. Apple should make setting up the “right-click” a part of the initial set-up assistant.
@OctoberMac: The expected behavior of a “right click” is to–guess what?–CLICK. If you don’t understand the essential elegance, sense, and, yes, functionality of this design choice, GTFO. You were never meant to be a Mac user.
He is saving money for the next time he gets fined by the NBA.
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I’m with you. Fsck Mark Cuban.
This guy was one of the main people responsible for setting music royalties for webcasters so high that only a handful of rich corporate players could afford them. So for all his bluster about being a “new media visionary,” he’s just an old-school robber baron in my book.
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Good for him that he wised up and finally got a Mac and everything, but my favorite sports moment of the year (maybe of the decade) was when Nellie and the Warriors pwned the Mavs sorry asses!
I’ve long wished Apple would put some kind of transparent, peel-off sticker over the trackpad to point people in the right direction for “right-click” functionality!
You see it on forums all the time: “love the Mac but can’t get on with a single button”!