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.Mac adds VersionTracker and iBlog to the benefits

Posted by pudge on from the all-this-and-email-too dept.

MacMerc.com writes "Today, .Mac users will see that a free VersionTracker Plus subscription, a discount of half off VersionTracker Pro subscription and software, free iBlog Blogging Software, and a discount on SmartDisk FireWire Drives have been added to their Member Benefits."

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  1. Re:Worthless... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Explain to me why it's necessary to have a subscription to backup to a DVD-R again? I'm a dumb PC user, so please go slow.

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  2. Comments from my .mac iBlog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE NETCRAFT! *BSD is dying

    Yet another cripping bombshell hit my beleaguered TiBook as I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend at his freelance gig while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder on less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. 5 hours. The amazing thing is at home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this MAC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. This serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Now, I got the job to fix this as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy as the titanum powerbook! It is collapsing in complete disarray as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    In addition, The hand writing is on the wall; during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, straining to keep up as I type this, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. MacOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this TiBook at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine. A recent article put the TiBook at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 TiBook users.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems. MacOS is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, My TiBook is dying.

    Fact: TiBooks running BSD at a Freelance gig are dying.

  3. TOTAL RIP-OFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    As far as I am concerned, .Mac is a TOTAL RIP-OFF and one of the BIGGEST BONERS of a great number of BONEHEADED MOVES Apple have made over the past few years. The service - which used to be included for free with the purchase of a computer - has had NO BENEFITS, has been SLUGGISH AND BUGGED at what it purports to do, and in the words of Andrew Orlowski of The Register, is THE DUMBEST MARKETING MOVE APPLE HAVE EVER MADE.

    I have three .Mac accounts, and all I ever get in there is SPAM, SPAM, AND MORE SPAM - AND IT'S ALL FROM APPLE.

    And if you wusses could stop licking Jobs's butt for five minutes, YOU'D ADMIT IT TOO.

  4. Can't really see why? by theolein · · Score: 1, Troll

    These new extras seem a little pointless, I think. The rest of .Mac, the mail, webspace, online volume and backup are useful and if someone is willing to pay $100 per year for that, all the power to them. But I think that as soon as one moves into a slightly more astute level, where one can implement many of those features oneself on a normal hosting service, the appeal of .Mac goes away.

    Added to this, it seemed on the Mac forums that the service is often down, which would be irritating if one depends on it for some thing.