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List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $44.95
You Save: $55.00 (55%)
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 438
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 1
MPN: MA927Z/A
Model: MA927Z/A
UPC: 718908999653
EAN: 0718908999653
ASIN: B000BX7GAI
Release Date: August 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 56
 Overpriced but useful September 27, 2007
Ruby Mermelstein (Milton, VT United States)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Apple should charge between $25 and $50 for .Mac each year. For what you get it's a bit over priced as you can get many services offered in .Mac for free with other companies and with other cheap or free software.
.Mac is more convenient and easy to use but this convenience may not be worth the much higher price tag for many people.
 I love .mac March 15, 2008
FroggyM (Washington, DC)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm totally new to the mac as of October 2007, and I'm so glad I switched. I think .mac is so cool and easy that I can't imagine why every mac owner doesn't get it. I manage 5 websites now for myself and friends (e.g. when one has a new baby), AND I HAVE NO WEBSITE DESIGN EXPERIENCE. iWeb '08 + .mac = EASY. And the .mac web galleries are great too.
Yes, I'm aware that most of the services included in .mac are free other places. I have flickr and picasa and youtube, I do all that too. But I think $100/year is worth the simplicity and easy of use for this kind of hosting.
I don't use .mac mail (why be tied to Apple when you can have gmail). I sync my contacts, etc, but since I only have one mac, that isn't really helpful.
Basically, I think that the easy-website creation + .mac web galleries are worth $100 a year. Amazon's price is even better.
Also, I've bought several domain names from godaddy.com, so that I don't have the (somewhat) ugly .mac domain names. Steps:
1. Buy domain from godaddy.com (e.g. www.sallylovesapples.com)
2. Go into godaddy settings (i.e. "My Domains")
3. Click "Fowarding" so that you can forward people to the ugly .mac domain (so that when people type www.sallylovesapples.com they will be forwarded to www.mac.uglydomain.com)
4. Making forwarding "enabled" and copy paste the ugly .mac url
5. Check "Moved Temporarily" (not sure what will happen if you choose "permanently")
6. Click the "masking" tab, and enable it (put check in check box), and write something pretty like "Sally Loves Apples"
7. Click "ok" or whatever
8. About 1-2 hours later, when you go to www.sallylovesapples.com (in your internet browser), users will be redirected to your .mac website, but they will never see the ugly .mac domain!!
Hope that helps. It's super easy. And you can get a domain from godaddy.com for about $7.99 for the first year ($9.99/year thereafter). Just google "godaddy coupon" and you'll find coupon codes.
Save by buying "indirect" October 18, 2007
Don Lubach (Santa Barbara, CA USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm hooked on .Mac. Like many others, I think that one can cobble together the features, free, from other sources. But I've used it for years and there's enough value to justify the annual cost. When I buy it from Amazon, I save about 20 bucks over getting it direct from Apple. What I Don't like is that Amazon sends a big box. Inside the box is another box. Inside that box is a lot of paper. One of the papers has a code. All I need is that code to type in to renew. So I save 20 bucks but then feel bad about my negative environmental impact. But we tree huggers are like this. Thanks for the savings.
Amazon's .Mac October 17, 2007
John S. Brandt (Chicago)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Amazon is a great way to save a few bucks on yearly subscriptions to .Mac, Apple's online storage, special features and web hosting service. Purchase from Amazon at a discount, enter the serial number, and Apple automatically recognizes you've already originally or re-subscribed, avoiding Apple's full-priced automatic resubscriptions .Mac (dot Mac) seemlessly syncs with Apple software for backup, web hosting and other purposes. Easily accessible from Macs and PCs (Windows), among its many features are the ability to store and transfer files, lock (password protect) areas or make them fully public. If you own a Mac and iLife, it's a great addition. Apple often posts free software (such as huge amounts of extra sound loops for such apps as GarageBand, backup and other needs.
Great Deal on Amazon, Convenient Service November 2, 2007
Adam Johnson (USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The .Mac Service has been criticized by many as being too expensive, and one can certainly get many things that the service offers in various other places on the internet for free. However, the service does justify the cost if you need the one-click convenience of publishing your iPhoto library or blog to the internet, for example. Mac OS Backup software also integrates nicely with .Mac, and the IMAP e-mail feature delivers added convenience. If you have Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), the service is even more justified, since you can now access your home Mac's screen via any other Mac running Leopard on the internet with the new Back to My Mac feature. However, I would buy the retail package from Amazon because it is a substantial savings over the $99 retail price, and you can renew your membership this way as well. Save some money and buy from Amazon, especially if you are an avid iLife 08 and Leopard user!
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