haroldo
join:2004-01-16
Short Hills, NJ
 ·Comcast
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May 9th, @09:52AM
| reply to dennismurphy
Re: Why to pay for .Mac ......
For $70 a year, (if it's only for backup) a backup drive becomes an attractive alternative.
My family purchased 4 .MAC subscriptions (I knew we didn't need, it, but I guess it was a temporary point of sale moment of weakness) and we've never used any aspect of it, ever!
I swear, we wont buy it the next time, but then, if the salesperson is persuasive... |
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Count Zero
MD2Be
Premium
join:2007-01-18
Warner Robins, GA
 ·AT&T DSL Service
·Cox HSI
| I got it for free initially with my first PowerBook G4.... didn't use it for most of the first year (even the email was only sparsely used) but then I realized that it allowed me to sync things seamlessly between my two Macs, and now it is pretty tightly integrated into iLife.
These days I use it as my primary personal email account, I use the web galleries to host albums for relatives to look at, I use iDisk to host files I want to distribute to friends and family and even though I only have one Mac now I find it useful to keep my settings sync'd to .Mac in case I have to restore (keychains especially).
I was able to find it in the For Sale section of this site recently for $45. I agree that $99/yr is overpriced, and $70 isn't much better - but $45 is pretty darn good. That's cheaper than Mozy which I also find highly useful. |
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vukodlak75
Nisam Ti Dude
Premium,MVM
join:2001-10-27
Beachwood, OH
clubs: 
| said by Count Zero  :These days I use it as my primary personal email account, I use the web galleries to host albums for relatives to look at, I use iDisk to host files I want to distribute to friends and family and even though I only have one Mac now I find it useful to keep my settings sync'd to .Mac in case I have to restore (keychains especially). sam e here  |
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