Apple .Mac 5.0 Family Pack

List Price: $179.95 Discount Price: $94.90

Features:

• Seamlessly extends the Mac experience to the Internet
• Share photos and movies beautifully--directly from iLife '08; Publish a professional-looking website or blog with a click
• Stay in touch from anywhere using ad-free IMAP email; Keep your team, club, or family on the same page
• Sync contacts, bookmarks, and more across multiple Macs
• Share and access large files from anywhere; Protect your precious memories with a few clicks

Customer Reviews:

Barely worth it, but worth it nonetheless. [Posted on 2007-10-10]
We are five in my family and we each have at least one Mac (yeah, we're lucky like that). So the family pack seems liek a perfect fit for us.

The best part: online address book access, editing, syncing and sharing.

The iDisk is a nice way to share big files and the recent storage bump is very welcome and was badly needed.

I have a Mac mini at home that's always on and I'm looking forward to the Back To My Mac feature in Leopard, which will make .Mac so much better.

I don't have the new iLife nor an iPhone so I'm missing out on some features... for now.

If .Mac was cheaper, I would recommend it for sure. As it stands, I need to think hard every year before I renew.

...Do I or Don't I... [Posted on 2007-10-13]
...renew the family pack for the next year! I've read the various reviews of how I can get storage, use Picasso, or other services to create the same bundle, but with the favorable Amazon pricing I keep buying the "empty box" each year!

Product works well, and I truly use it to tie my two college age kids into a common platform. Best services remain on line syncing, and the .mac platform for internet access.

At the end of the day, for $12 a month I can't complain, and will renew again next year.

Dot Mac is a valuable tool [Posted on 2007-10-22]
With the new increased storage .mac is much easier to justify and generally just that much more useful. Nobody is going to backup their multimedia library in 10G but to keep your contacts, calendars, bookmarks, passwords and critical documents safe and offsite there is no easier way. This alone could be worth while for what amounts to $30/year per person.

But take advantage of any of it's other features and it is almost a no brainer. My mom can post a website with the combination of .mac and iWeb and the photo sharing abilities are incredible.

Needed renewal, did not ship in time [Posted on 2007-11-08]
Already a subscriber, so got renewal pack at Amazon. All was on schedule, but then Amazon postponed the estimated ship date at the same moment they made the order impossible to cancel. I had to go out and get a renewal pack somewhere else while Amazon held the committed order.

Family Help the Easy Way [Posted on 2007-11-12]
The Apple .Mac Family Pack is terrific . My son has convinced me Apples are the best
so after 25 years with PC:s I am an Apple Mac Book Pro user 17 in.laptop and Mini.
Now some of our family is connected with photos and music and we love it, Plus
backup space.

Apple is sure setting the computer business on its ear they are so far ahead of the competition also with Leopard and I wish them the best.

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