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Category: Software
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $44.95
You Save: $55.00 (55%)
New (10) Used (1) from $44.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 583
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 1
MPN: MA927Z/A
Model: MA927Z/A
UPC: 718908999653
EAN: 0718908999653
ASIN: B000BX7GAI
Release Date: August 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Price... January 1, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
.Mac is terrific. Amazon is a great source of Apple products at a lower than Apple price.
 I am astounded by the other reviews and wonder: Have the other reviewers even used all the features? December 29, 2007
23 out of 32 found this review helpful
I am an apple developer and me and many of my friends have .mac.
None of us have been able to get idisk syncing to work, after a few uses, it glitches up and you need to delete the local idisk and start again. After upgrading to 10.5, this problem is even worse and the local idisk image takes up tons of space on your harddrive because of a glitch. If you were actually using it, you just lost all the local files that didn't upload yet.
None of us can transfer a file larger than 4GB to or from an idisk.
Transferring many small files is glacially slow. I have a 20mbit connection to the internet and it goes at about 56K speed. Each file that is created takes at least a few seconds to finish creating and syncing, so if you try to put thousands of small files... good luck, I have left it syncing sometimes for days and it never finished.
Syncing calendars and contacts works, but if you also sync to another device like an iphone or treo using isync, then it will get glitched up over time and then hope you made backups or you will spend hours deleting duplicate contacts from your address book (this happened to me twice so far since the iphone came out just a few months ago).
Perhaps the other users who reviewed this only use it about 5 minutes a year so they don't run into these problems, but apple knows about them and has not fixed them. This is the reason .mac is not supported by applecare. The only way to get support for .mac is to submit a web form, where they just email you back generic responses with a huge list of things to try to get your stuff to unglitch. I tried them all and none of them worked for me. They amount to resetting everything, so by the time you put everything back you will end up back where you started.
I am a huge apple fan and own 4 macs just in my home, and an iphone. I have to say .mac is the worst product apple has ever made - EVER. The iTV was a bad idea but at least it does what it is supposed to do.
.MAC is a great idea, and, if i worked, I would recommend it highly, except I have had it for about 3 years, and with this latest version, its not any less glitchy. They just added more space to your idisk and started advertising how you can send up large files - but neglect to mention that you will never use up all that space because it will become glitchy long before that.
Buddies of mine all use macs, and I have yet to meet a person that was able to fill the 10GB idisk. Not only is the connection so slow it would take forever to do it, but files get corrupted and you can't delete them, sot hey are stuck on there permanently, and apple refuses to reset your idisk if the permissions on it get corrupted (I have asked them to reset mine, and they don't seem to have a way to do it).
There is something called jungledisk which is cheaper and works far better than idisk, and calendar and contacts syncing can also be done by third party sites cheaper and better (meaning much faster).
idisk is based off of a webdav technology, and I am astounded how apple managed to implement it so badly. Clearly, they have zero experience in web development. Their own web site looks nice but they didn't even have the sense to detect if someone has quicktime on their machine. And this is their homepage. I have never seen any other large companies main page have a huge X in the middle where a component failed to load on 90% of computers out there (PCs). I wonder if they bothered to test the site from a normal windows PC without their stuff pre-installed on it. Many users I know don't know how to install quicktime anyway and the ones that do know wouldn't want to junk up their PC, they already have windows media player so whats the point?
Apple Dot Mac December 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Long time dot Mac user; well satisfied. Usually wait each year for Amazon's lowest price to buy and hold it for my next renewal. This year saved over $37 from Apple's price including tax.
Mislabled Product December 21, 2007
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
This was found under the search for Apple .Mac Family PacK.
It was not a family pack
It was a disaster, we lost all our stored files, one of our family email accounts. And no one would fix the problem for six weeks.
it's better than ever now December 18, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have used .Mac for years as a place to store web sites I'm working on for customers' perusal before I upload for "real". Now that there is 10GB of space, it's better than ever. I also use it as a drop box for large files. Works GREAT! Well worth the money for those tasks AND it syncs with iCal and Address book and bookmarks among my computers.
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