[muglo] Re: iTools/.Mac

on 7/20/02 9:12 PM, Eric D. at hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hmmm. Didn't I just see this post a few seconds earlier come though on the
> LowEndMac.com Mac-Canada list... :)
> 
> I think most Canadians (or Americans or whoever) won't bother with it --
> price to performance .Mac ain't a good deal. $150 for an e-mail address
> (plus, a 100 MB home page/storage gadget) is an exorbitant rip off when you
> consider what you can get for that much each year with a real ISP (you'd
> have your own domain name thrown in for that kind of $$$).
> 
> For some reason I think Apple's number crunchers really missed the mark on
> this one. I doubt it'll be worth paying $150 each year for an e-mail address
> which happens to have a small & SLOW 100 MB of storage (it would take ~3-6
> hours to back up that much at 5-10 K/sec).
> 
> If they could achieve a decent rate of access it *might* be worth $75-100
> CDN/year, but AppleTalk over TCP/IP is god-awfully slow. I can get 1
> MByte/sec off the best FTP server I've ever encountered (McGill), usually
> get 100-200 K/sec and will kill a download if it comes in at under 25 K/sec
> (unless there's no alternate server... yesterday I killed a 150 K/sec d/l
> because I found a server that was willing to dish out the same file at 200
> K/sec ;). In contrast, I've never seen more than 5-10 K/Sec, (1/100 my max)
> off iDisk... transferring files over 56 K modem is *just as fast* as
> transferring files over a T3 (or perhaps we have even more now) capable of
> serving up over 1 MB/sec over a 10BaseT connection.
> 
> The other ridiculous thing about iDisk (now .Mac) is that it ties up your
> computer while copying files to/from the disk (ok, under OS X I can work in
> other applications, but the Finder is busy (supposedly Jaguar fixes this)).
> $150 for that, hurumph. I'd rather use FTP, get decent u/l & d/l speeds
> *and* be able to use my computer for other stuff (if running OS 9), *and*
> get a whole slew of e-mail addresses *and* get my own domain name.
> 
> The short and the long of it is, .Mac is a thorough ripoff when you consider
> what you could get from a real ISP, with you very own domain name for *less*
> (of course, you don't have a mac.com e-mail address, but you would instead
> have your own e-mail...
> yourveryownname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/.com/.biz/.org/.net/.co.uk/.whateve
> rwillsellyouaname).
> 
> L8r, Eric.

Eric,

Yes, thought I'd send it to Mac Canada too - the list has been very quiet.

Good points - but I currently have an iTools account and can use it for a
year at $49 US, so may try it out and if not worth it will not renew at $100
US.

Should have seen it coming with the @mac.dom address. They get you using it
and then charge for it. I do find iDisk slow but it is really helpful using
it as a central server for my work stuff (can use it on a Windows machine),
updating my mom's iMac etc.

Find the Home Page great - really easy to use and can set up a site with
pictures in minutes! Not that great with HTML so this is a nice option.

Read on the iMac List that someone had a pamphlet that came with their iMac
and it said that iTools would be free for life!

Tim



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