“Apple is going to announce a storage upgrade on Macworld 2007,” according to a post on Digg.
“In Windows, the iDisk storage capacity is over 30GB (over 30000MB), but in Finder in MacOSX it is only 128MB big. I think Apple is trying to ‘hide’ the upgrade until Macworld, but did not managed to ‘trick’ Windows to hide the storage upgrade,” explains “magsy1” on Digg.
“magsy1” also posted proof via YouTube:
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s US$99.95 .Mac Mail and iDisk combined storage is currently 1GB, upgradeable to 2GB for an additional $49.95 per year. We’re skeptical. It would take take next-to-nothing for Apple to upgrade .Mac storage at anytime, so there’s no reason why Apple would have to turn it on early and go through such machinations to keep it “secret.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Scarbro” and “mango” for the heads up.]
While it makes sense that dot mac storage is increased if media files etc are to be stored there, I think this could just be a case that Windows messed up with its volume size calculation. I mean we’ve never heard of Windoze messing up before!
I think it’s related to iTV. .Mac will act as a Tivo instead of putting a hard drive into iTV. That way, copyrighted material can be protected by Apple and make the studios happy enough to let Apple do what they want.
Anybody home?
Lets hope they’ve fixed the glacial transfer speeds, especially for uploading.
I could see increasing it to 3 GB, but 30…? That would be nice though and make .Mac a real good deal.
….TIME MACHINE….
Maybe it will be used in conjunction with TimeMachine?
Mine shows 10 GB in Windows and 500 MB in Mac OS.
I think it’s reading the size of the Winblows partition.
Can you imagine how long it would take to transfer 30GB of data over an Internet connection?
well if anyone knows under WebDav you can customize what file size it says it is , so this seems very plausible and if they made everything alot faster and cheaper than i would go back to it
I just farted!
MW: I will surely do it again soon
“Can you imagine how long it would take to transfer 30GB of data over an Internet connection?”
Gavin, not that long actually… you sound like you are still on a dial-up… or have a crappy truncated asymmetrical broadband connection that limits your upload bandwidth… time to get a bigger pipe my friend
[sent to you on a 12Mb symmetrical fiber-optic pipe, cost less than $50/per month… courtesy of Paxio, and it’s scaleable to a Gigbit symmetrical pipe! yeah baby!]
fiber-to-the-curb folks the way of the future!
http://www.paxio.com/home.php?link=Internet
There might be a .mac storage upgrade, but it’s more likely a flaw in Windows.
Where are my .mac widgets that were promised a year ago?
Why is this hard to believe? at MediaMax I get far more storage space for $99.
I too am horrified by the thought of trying to transfer gigabytes of data to .Mac – on my machine the speed is awful – a real flashback to the days of 56k modems. And no, it’s nothing to do with my Internet connection speed – I have 20 MB/s download and 1.5 MB/s upload, and the vast majority of other sites scream. However, I do live in Holland and not California and I can’t help but wonder whether Apple has bothered deploying any servers outside of Cupertino. This might explain the differing accounts of speed amongst different users. If they haven’t bothered with mirroring the servers elsewhere in the world, then this is disgraceful – people outside of the US pay more for the service than those in the US.
That said, 30GB of storage with decent connection speeds would be awesome, particularly with Timemachine. But the chances of getting 30GB and decent speeds seems too much to hope for.
… Oops – I meant Mb/s not MB/s. However, it’s download as well as upload that sucks, so it’s nothing to do with the asymmetrical connection of my ADSL. FTP uploads to other sites are perfectly respectable.
Take a look at this first before thinkging about it too much
http://ungeni.us/section/opinion/idiots_jumping_on_digg_bandwagons
Yeah, the time is here. It’s not that hard to transfer 30gb of data.
I just got a sweet 20 megabit line (FiOS) put in
Demitri makes an interesting point… how cool would that be? To have .Mac and Time Machine work together… and the iTV connection is a good idea too.
yeah, im from belgium europe and my .mac is so focking slow, i was in seatle last month, and there it was flying, booh to apple for this one!!
well..I just looked up my iDisk on my Macbook — in bootcamp – using XP and found that my iDisk reads 26Gb!!!!
interesting…very very interesting.
(FYI, on my iMac — it’s hows normal 1Gb)
This is the quietest of new rumors season I can remember for MacWorld.
Seems this is going to be one ho-hum Macworld.
In the past year Steve and co. have been so tied up in stock scandels, Disney dealings, health problems, etc. that there was no time to create new ideas and let Steve bless them.
So gman,
What happens if you try to upload more than 1 Gb on your XP iDisk? Will it take it?
Try it and let us know. I have a .mac account but I don’t have XP.
So can we just assume the obvious first: That the windows computer was screwed up and didn’t report the correct size? If we’re comparing the FInder to Windows Explorer, why would we assume that the Finder was wrong?