Customer Rating: 
Summary: Apple .Mac Online Svc
Comment: Long time .Mac user. Wait to find best price including shipping and taxes for renewals, then buy when the best prices are found. Have used Amazon twice on their specials they offer from time to time on .Mac as they were most competitive total price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: You only get 512MB of iDisk storage, Web Site hosting, Photos, etc.!!!!
Comment: Don't expect, like I did, of getting the full 1GB storage potential.
I guess I didn't read the fine print somewhere.
You only get 512MB storage for photos, idisk & web site hosting and 512MB just for e-mail.
But for just $100.- upgrade ($179.00-$200.00 total) you can have a whopping
2.5 gigs online storage capacity.
The iLife features are nice for novices (like myself) and integrate nicely w/ .Mac, but you can still create a website w/ iWeb and publish it elsewhere.
I originally wanted to post alot of photos, host my business web site, host a web site for friends/family (including blogs, podcasts, etc.) and integrate my e-mail and iLife programs.
The 512MB won't even cover my photos (1gb was gonna be a tight squeeze).
So, like an earlier poster mentioned join Flickr, Ophoto or any other free photo site, if you have alot of photos.
By the way if you are currently using Yahoo! Photos, then you will need to migrate these to one of these sites by September sometime (2007), as they are discontinuing this service.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but needs work!
Comment: There's lots to like with the .mac service, unfortunately, the price is not one of them. I use the sync, mail, tutorials and iDisk mostly. These services seem to function well (mail does seem to be down more than any other mail service I use), but there are other FREE services that are as good or better, but it's the .Mac integration with OS 10 that makes it so nice to use. Even with the Amazon price however, it is still too costly for what is offered. Hopefully Apple will be adding features to .Mac in the near future!
Customer Rating:
Summary: dot.mac simplifies your life
Comment: Having a dot.mac account means setting up Mail on your computer is effortless. I can synch up my address book, browser favorites, and calendars between my home computer and my work computer. Or I can access that info from any computer, which is great when travelling. Haven't tried the automatic backup feature yet, but that's next.
Customer Rating:
Summary: could aways be a bit better
Comment: e-mail: .mac (imap) is great
web page/idisk: easy to upload + edit
backup: great bonus
photocasting: ehhh, used it only once
sync: it's the biggest bonus, because all of the above you can basically get for free elsewhere
is it worth the money? each year I'm asking myself the same question and somehow continue to use the service hoping that it would bring new and attractive features that other companies don't offer yet. I'm happy with it the way it is but it's quite expensive!
Summary: Apple .Mac Online Svc
Comment: Long time .Mac user. Wait to find best price including shipping and taxes for renewals, then buy when the best prices are found. Have used Amazon twice on their specials they offer from time to time on .Mac as they were most competitive total price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: You only get 512MB of iDisk storage, Web Site hosting, Photos, etc.!!!!
Comment: Don't expect, like I did, of getting the full 1GB storage potential.
I guess I didn't read the fine print somewhere.
You only get 512MB storage for photos, idisk & web site hosting and 512MB just for e-mail.
But for just $100.- upgrade ($179.00-$200.00 total) you can have a whopping
2.5 gigs online storage capacity.
The iLife features are nice for novices (like myself) and integrate nicely w/ .Mac, but you can still create a website w/ iWeb and publish it elsewhere.
I originally wanted to post alot of photos, host my business web site, host a web site for friends/family (including blogs, podcasts, etc.) and integrate my e-mail and iLife programs.
The 512MB won't even cover my photos (1gb was gonna be a tight squeeze).
So, like an earlier poster mentioned join Flickr, Ophoto or any other free photo site, if you have alot of photos.
By the way if you are currently using Yahoo! Photos, then you will need to migrate these to one of these sites by September sometime (2007), as they are discontinuing this service.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but needs work!
Comment: There's lots to like with the .mac service, unfortunately, the price is not one of them. I use the sync, mail, tutorials and iDisk mostly. These services seem to function well (mail does seem to be down more than any other mail service I use), but there are other FREE services that are as good or better, but it's the .Mac integration with OS 10 that makes it so nice to use. Even with the Amazon price however, it is still too costly for what is offered. Hopefully Apple will be adding features to .Mac in the near future!
Customer Rating:
Summary: dot.mac simplifies your life
Comment: Having a dot.mac account means setting up Mail on your computer is effortless. I can synch up my address book, browser favorites, and calendars between my home computer and my work computer. Or I can access that info from any computer, which is great when travelling. Haven't tried the automatic backup feature yet, but that's next.
Customer Rating:
Summary: could aways be a bit better
Comment: e-mail: .mac (imap) is great
web page/idisk: easy to upload + edit
backup: great bonus
photocasting: ehhh, used it only once
sync: it's the biggest bonus, because all of the above you can basically get for free elsewhere
is it worth the money? each year I'm asking myself the same question and somehow continue to use the service hoping that it would bring new and attractive features that other companies don't offer yet. I'm happy with it the way it is but it's quite expensive!