“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!”
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MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Mark, you “Apple fanboy,” you (even if you won’t admit it)!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]