.Mac on a MBP?

[Hard-Hat-Mac]

Hi all,

I have my CC ready for when the new MBP is annouced. This will be my first Mac since I was five and had an Apple II. I was wondering if .Mac is really worth it? It has a promotional price of $69.95 right now and if it stays that way imight get it to try it out, but wanted to get the community's thoughts on it. I will be using my MBP primarily for Photo edititing and as a part of a portable music studio set-up.

Thanks in advace.

HHM

[Gee]

Hi all,

I have my CC ready for when the new MBP is annouced. This will be my first Mac since I was five and had an Apple II. I was wondering if .Mac is really worth it? It has a promotional price of $69.95 right now and if it stays that way imight get it to try it out, but wanted to get the community's thoughts on it. I will be using my MBP primarily for Photo edititing and as a part of a portable music studio set-up.

Thanks in advace.

HHM

Take the three month free demo of it first, see how it suits you.

[jng]

Do a search for .mac and you'll find several threads about .mac and whether or not it's worth it, etc.

[odinsride]

I'm nearing the end of my trial of .mac, and my thoughts are this:

It's very nice to have something tightly integrated with the OS ... i.e. push Publish on an iWeb site and your site is online. I mainly used .mac to host a website I made in iWeb. It has other features, many of which have free alternatives, such as online storage (gmail/snapdrive/imageshack/whatever), email (gmail/yahoo/hotmail), groups (yahoo groups), among other things.

I ended up going with a real webhosting company in the end though, because I like having the extra flexibility you get with that. I can do php/mysql if I want, have a real domain, etc.

It all comes down to what your needs are..if you just need something simple and easy to use then .mac definitely fits the bill...but you get a free trial so it doesn't hurt to check it out.

[Kaiser Phoenix]

For me the @mac on ur email makes me feel part of a cult in a sense. People can immediately identify u with macs LOL whether that is a good thing or not is obviously up for you to decide.

Also having bookmarks, address books etc synced with your other family members for example also helps greatly.

I suppose it is a 'luxury' item in the sense that I dont really 'need' it but i guess by sacrificing a few beers for example per week I can continue to pay my subsricption LOL.

Also what I do is that whenever my friends by a new mac, and they dont want to get .mac, i ask them to get it for the promo and then i buy it off them so i never have to buy full price.