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Sell me on MobileMe

wako said:
Quite honestly I dont think .Mac or MobileMe is a good backing up solution. Most people having hundreds of pictures, it wont even back up most people's library of photos...
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I agree my music, photo, and video library is WAY beyond the storage space .mac provides.
 
I have been a .Mac subscriber for the past 5 years and will continue with Mobile Me. I have used the web galleries to post pictures of my children's activities to share with family and friends across the country, and now I am posting pictures ( 450 so far!) of my new grand daughter. The "push" email will be nice, but it the web galleries I use the most. I have felt all along that it was money well spent. ;)
 
Techguy172 said:
I have hundreds of RAW Photo's and growing steadily 20GB is plenty
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Maybe 20GB is enough for 'hundreds of RAWs' if you have a 2MP camera and shoot exclusively at ISO100 ... ;)

I'm exaggerating, of course. But the RAW files from my camera are huge - about 10-15MB each, IIRC ... I've got about 80GB in my active library, with all of that plus another 40-50GB backed up off-site. So MobileMe's 20GB is absolutely worthless to me as a backup tool. But I did buy a Family Pack on June 10th, because I want push email/calendars/contacts for my two new iPhone 3Gs next week. And in the meantime, I'm finding the integration with iLife to be VERY cool. :)
 
mavis said:
Maybe 20GB is enough for 'hundreds of RAWs' if you have a 2MP camera and shoot exclusively at ISO100 ... ;)

I'm exaggerating, of course. But the RAW files from my camera are huge - about 10-15MB each, IIRC ... I've got about 80GB in my active library, with all of that plus another 40-50GB backed up off-site. So MobileMe's 20GB is absolutely worthless to me as a backup tool. But I did buy a Family Pack on June 10th, because I want push email/calendars/contacts for my two new iPhone 3Gs next week. And in the meantime, I'm finding the integration with iLife to be VERY cool. :)
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I said I have hundreds you have thousands. My RAW Files are big Probably most of them are 12MB But I don't have thousands.
 
MobileMe's cool. And now that Apple's pulled it for PCs as well (I have a PC for gaming and other mac-incapable purposes) I had to get it

That and also I was getting it for $58 from ebay... :D
 
mavis said:
Maybe 20GB is enough for 'hundreds of RAWs' if you have a 2MP camera and shoot exclusively at ISO100 ... ;)

I'm exaggerating, of course. But the RAW files from my camera are huge - about 10-15MB each, IIRC ... I've got about 80GB in my active library, with all of that plus another 40-50GB backed up off-site. So MobileMe's 20GB is absolutely worthless to me as a backup tool. But I did buy a Family Pack on June 10th, because I want push email/calendars/contacts for my two new iPhone 3Gs next week. And in the meantime, I'm finding the integration with iLife to be VERY cool. :)
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By any means may I ask why will you buy 2 iPhones for YOURSELF. (Correct me if Im wrong but you mentioned 'for my two new iphones...', so Im guessing they'll be yours and not for some one in family)
 
Apple Ink said:
By any means may I ask why will you buy 2 iPhones for YOURSELF. (Correct me if Im wrong but you mentioned 'for my two new iphones...', so Im guessing they'll be yours and not for some one in family)
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I think he mentioned it was for his girlfriend or something earlier.
I may totally be thinking of someone else though. :rolleyes:
 
Apple Ink said:
MobileMe's cool. And now that Apple's pulled it for PCs as well (I have a PC for gaming and other mac-incapable purposes) I had to get it

That and also I was getting it for $58 from ebay... :D
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but can you really buy this on ebay?
 
How slow is iDisk when it comes to syncing files? Can't wait for a trial to appear on Apple's site. I have an iMac and a MacBook Air and keeping certain folders always in sync would save me so much time (mostly PDFs, pages documents, etc.)
 
Well I find the speed ok even though lots of users complain. I am located in France. However there are faster services like Dropbox that trick the upload by allowing on their servers only one instance of the same file. Therefore if you upload a pretty common song or movie or file that is already on their server, they will simply add a link to that file on your account in the folder you have specified. Therefore the upload seems a lot faster. of course it does not work with photos or personal document but since there is a deep analysis of every single file it's 100% reliable.
 
marmiteturkey said:
Sorry if this is a silly question, but can you really buy this on ebay?
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Yep! You have those retail boxes of .Mac that may be negotiated upon and sold anywhere by anyone in the world. Why don't you try it yourself on ebay! Just search for "dot mac" and Im sure you'll find loads of options (at least in the ebay US)!

The boxes have an activation code that needs to be entered in the .Mac site. If you tell the ebay seller you only need the activation code through email, first it'll be cheaper as no shipping cost! Second, you'll get it as soon as five minutes!
 
jplan2008 said:
Yes. It only works with iWeb, so it's under "MobileMe on a Mac."
(I think the storage is also only with iDisk, so Mac only to set up, but accessible from a PC)
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for those who have dot mac and are hosting their website from iWeb... what is the website adress?

http://www.**name**.com?
http://www.**name**.mac?
http://www.**name**.me?

i want to share some of my mixes to people and have them hosted on the my site, and even have some download-able content...

can somebody give me a link of their site that uses .Mac?
 
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