09/29/2004, 11:15am, EDT

Wednesday, September 29th

Apple increases .Mac storage for email, iDisk

Apple today increased the amount of storage space it offers members of its paid .Mac service. The company said that it is now offering a 250MB of combined storage for its email and iDisk services, allowing users to customize the the amount of storage available for each service. The default settings are 125MB of mail storage and 125MB of iDisk space. Apple is offering an option to upgrade any .Mac account to 1GB of storage for $50/year. Previously, Apple offered 100MB of iDisk storage and 15MB of mail. In June, Apple increased the maximum email size from 3MB to 10MB, added email aliases, and offered a customizable spell checker. Apple's .Mac web services are also online after the unannounced upgrade caused an unexpected outage.

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testudo

Hmm

09/29, 11:27am, EDT

Thought something was up this morning when I turned on my computer and was told my disk image size didn't match the server.

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dab007

1gb

09/29, 11:35am, EDT

You can now add 1gb of storage for $49.

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icruise

Me too.

09/29, 11:35am, EDT

I wasn't sure what was going on with that error. Glad it was actually good news!

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dootbran

Long overdue

09/29, 11:38am, EDT

I'm glad to see they've finally upgraded the service, just in time too. My subscription is up for renewal later this week and I don't know if I could have justified the expense with the old limits.

Maybe we'll even get php/sql in the future... but I'm not going to start holding my breath for it.

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mag2

A good APPLE

09/29, 11:58am, EDT

Thanks Apple. I just renewed and was considering extra storage. The ability to put the storage where I need it is great. The ability to Alias is nice too and I did not know we were even able to do that. Keep up the good work. I now feel good about .Mac and renewing it!

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legacyb4

Upgrades

09/29, 12:28pm, EDT

Neat stuff; you can actually change the ratio of storage allocated between email and iDisk which is quite nice.

E-mail only accounts are bumped up to 50MB which is significantly more than before.

Not to mention services feel much smoother today...

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Filburt

1 GB should be free

09/29, 12:46pm, EDT

Geeze, 250 MB for $100/year service? And whopping $150/year for 1 GB? At the very least, 1 GB should've been included at no extra cost.

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MacnTX

More than just storage

09/29, 12:47pm, EDT

Well, you obviously get much more than just the 250MB of storage for the $99 per year fee of course...

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cteselle

finally...

09/29, 1:32pm, EDT

Well hopefully in the future they will continue to add more features and disk space... With the price of storage dropping almost on a daily basis, I can't imagine that they wouldn't eventually give us 1gb.

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PookJP

I upgraded to 1GB

09/29, 2:23pm, EDT

For $0/year! It's called Gmail.

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