Is .Mac Worth Buying?
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On Feb 1st, I opened up the phone lines. One of the questions I received was “Is .Mac really worth having?” I personally have .Mac, and I feel it’s worth it more at $60 than when it was over $100.00.
If you don’t have your own website, or need extra hosting… then yes, you should get a .Mac subscription. If you want to take advantage of a limited amount of sharing, or have web storage… then yes, it’s worth it. To me, I think the Remote Desktop feature is less important. However, think about it from the point of an average user. Being able to connect to your Mac at home from anywhere in the World is an amazing feature for most people.
Basically, you need to weigh the cost of the service against what all you’ll get for the price. Will you use the services offered? Are they things that you actually need? If so, then you should think about getting yourself a subscription. However, if you honestly don’t think you’ll use any of those features… why spend the money?
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Bowzer27
February 5th, 2008
at 6:11am
first
hunterwould
February 5th, 2008
at 6:12am
I give 3 stars, worth watching but i have to disagree on the whole “mac-software” thing.
my reasons are because if they get too popular i wont be able to use command prompt at school =p.
other than that i got nothing
cainemansion125
February 5th, 2008
at 8:20am
i own .mac, but i barely use it. lol
IceflowStudios
February 5th, 2008
at 8:25am
If you have 2+ Macs, then it’s probably worth it, mainly for the syncing features. The photo gallery is nice, especially with the integration with iPhoto, but I would rather use a service like Flickr.
vbognot626
February 5th, 2008
at 8:31am
It was me who called in!
WillThePlank
February 5th, 2008
at 9:00am
i could tell the second you spoke the first word lol
nunikili
February 5th, 2008
at 9:35am
TOP 5 was getting old, this is fresh, I LOVE IT !!!!
kpslover
February 5th, 2008
at 9:50am
I knew it! I recognize your voice!
kpslover
February 5th, 2008
at 9:52am
I’m glad you are opening up the lines again! I am kinda getting fed up of those top 5 lists, even though they were helpful, they are too frequent.
nemirc
February 5th, 2008
at 11:11am
“Is windows live better” no idea since I’ve never used .mac and the only thing about windows live services I use is live messenger, lol.
However, after paying like 2grand for a computer, the least apple could do is give you .mac for free.
There is nothing .mac does that I can’t do using services available for free everywhere.
nemirc
February 5th, 2008
at 11:12am
it’s like apple is more interested on getting every last penny out of your pocket…
IceArdor
February 5th, 2008
at 12:39pm
I wouldn’t say it’s worth it.
dvdd127
February 5th, 2008
at 1:15pm
not a mac user… but i am about to convert over to mac. People I know who are full time Mac users have told me not to waste my money on it
Eytan
February 5th, 2008
at 5:33pm
WHat I think it is worth is the $70 you can find it from discounters for….
Syncing is what makes it for me. The ability to sync information easily between my multiple Macs at work and home is indispensable. I change anything anywhere, and it instantly propagates to all my machines and my iPhone….
Could not live without that anymore
michaeln1978
February 6th, 2008
at 1:32am
If you only have one mac I don’t think it is worth it. However, having two macs, it is worth it to me just for the syncing features. It is nice to just open my laptop after not having used it for a month and my bookmarks and passwords and everything be updated.
Lastfuse
February 5th, 2008
at 6:37pm
I think its a great idea to try the 60 day trial. Before you buy.
NODDYFISCHER
February 6th, 2008
at 2:25am
Didn’t realise just how big Chris’ office is! He’s got desks all over the place, and that yellow flooring looks spanky (not a real word I know!). Is Pirillo a millionaire?
H1P2S
February 6th, 2008
at 2:37am
.mac should be free. I own a .mac a/c and i have 2 macs. I like .mac. I will pay for it again. The web gallery here in europe is very (painfully) slow, but apple promise they are looking into this problem. If the web gallery is still slow in a few years time i may give up paying for .mac. I hear the web gallery in the usa is fast.
Aisomar
February 5th, 2008
at 10:03pm
I think Its not a good idea to buy it
Brian7490
February 6th, 2008
at 6:46am
.MAC is actually STILL $100. Chris thought it was $70, because when you buy a mac, you can get it for 70.
zeldadevideos
February 6th, 2008
at 10:43am
what is
.mac
and what does it do?
Mike Manchester
February 6th, 2008
at 5:08am
What do you mean by. “it’s worth it more at $60 than when it was over $100.00.”? I’m still pay $99 and Apples web site says it’s $99.
jackfordmac
February 6th, 2008
at 5:23pm
I bought a dotmac account when I first got my mac. I now have bootcamp installed and still use my mac email address. It’s expenisve, in the UK it’s £70 a year, the email service is good but I don’t use the extra features like web hosting etc.
ajustwar
February 9th, 2008
at 12:42am
i think that this is a waste. You can get free backup/online storage. i have 5 gb for free through xdrive.
destructon62
March 11th, 2008
at 1:10pm
.mac is cool
Pete Skenandore
October 13th, 2009
at 4:23pm
I’ve thought about this quite a bit. I’ve had a .mac account for about 7 or so years? The renewal always sneaks up on me and then I just go with it. However, I do believe that it is no longer worth it to me. I don’t use iweb, the online storage, and have found the .mac mail spam filters to be sorely lacking, which is a primary reason for me to migrate over to (free) gmail.