really is becoming too litle for too much.

What a great deal! Glad I ddot out when they started charging.

BTW- For $7.77 a month you can get this-

5000MB Storage 300GB Tranfer a month Free setup and domain 650 pop email accounts + webmail and tons more

www.powweb.com

Pft.

It all depends on how you use it, if you just use it for web hosting/email then, yeah maybe it is. But if you have a couple macs or like being able to access your bookmarks & address book from anywhere then maybe its not. I've moved my website over to a better hosting solution w/ php scripting but I've still kept my .mac account for its more unique features.

Exactly... I use .Mac for synching data on 4 machines, and having a nice web-based GUI for access to the same data when I'm not at one of those boxes. The other stuff, mail, backup, hosting... Gmail might be a bit better in terms of email, an external drive for backup, and powweb is definitely a good choice for hosting. On the other hand, it's a beautiful thing to have them all together... have the no-brainer publishing, still have yet another copy of those really important documents, and a few of the perks that Apple throws your way now and then even pay off, too. All in all, .Mac is a winner for us.

They were one of the pioneers of popup/flash ads - fukkem

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People keep talking about gmail being this great substitute. I guess if you don't mind you emails being changed/advertised in, and being stuck using a web interface all the time, its perfect.

Me, I have enough email accounts all over that I like to get my mail in a dedicated mail program. Makes Gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc, not exactly time-saving.

Plus GMail is still in beta. (And keep in mind one reason people use it is to try to use it as off-line storage, while Google may restrict in the future with file limits and all).

The emails sent and received through Gmail do NOT get changed. The only advertising is if you use the web base interface. Text based ads (like the ones you see on many websites), are then put on the page, but are not inserted in the actual email.

Also, Gmail allows for POP access (and has for MANY months). I have been using it this way for quite some time to get my gmail through mail.app.

I agree that gmail is no replacement for .Mac, but you must really get your facts straight.

An already overpriced service... Apple touts .mac as a reason OS X is better. Encouraging people to switch so they can easily create, then share photos,videos,etc.. and then ask them to pay $150 a year to do it? For $100 its already over priced for the storage/bandwidth allocation. IF it weren't for syncing no one would even think about buying this service. And all the little "gifs" apple gives .mac subscribers are mostly worthless (at least to me). Apple, give me a discount on the next os release and I'll be happy...lol

if apple is going to charge extra now why dont they make it worth while by adding mysql/postgres and php support to .mac? then maybe id do it.

Charge more... Get Less. Yay Apple!!!!

Just another reason why I don't have a .mac account and question the intelligence of anyone who does.