Apple has increased the combined storage for .Mac Mail and iDisk to 250 MB. That means .Mac members now have additional room for email messages and mail attachments, web pages, and backups. .Mac members now also have the option of upgrading your .Mac account to 1 GB for US$49.95 per year.
.Mac Mail now comes with a default 125 MB of email storage so .Mac members can keep more messages available for online access. .Mac members can also configure their individual account’s 250 MB of combined storage to best fit the way they use your .Mac account. Maximum message size has been upped to a hefty 10 MB, giving .Mac Mail the power to handle attachments such as hi-res images and large project files.
.Mac memebers can log into .Mac, click their Account Settings, and click the “Storage Settings” button and choose from among the following choices in the “Storage Settings” drop down menu:
– 16 MB Email / 234 MB iDisk
– 20 MB Email / 230 MB iDisk
– 25 MB Email / 225 MB iDisk
– 30 MB Email / 220 MB iDisk
– 35 MB Email / 215 MB iDisk
– 40 MB Email / 210 MB iDisk
– 45 MB Email / 205 MB iDisk
– 50 MB Email / 200 MB iDisk
– 55 MB Email / 195 MB iDisk
– 60 MB Email / 190 MB iDisk
– 65 MB Email / 185 MB iDisk
– 70 MB Email / 180 MB iDisk
– 75 MB Email / 175 MB iDisk
– 80 MB Email / 170 MB iDisk
– 85 MB Email / 165 MB iDisk
– 90 MB Email / 160 MB iDisk
– 95 MB Email / 155 MB iDisk
– 100 MB Email / 150 MB iDisk
– 105 MB Email / 145 MB iDisk
– 110 MB Email / 140 MB iDisk
– 115 MB Email / 135 MB iDisk
– 120 MB Email / 130 MB iDisk
– 125 MB Email / 125 MB iDisk
– 130 MB Email / 120 MB iDisk
– 135 MB Email / 115 MB iDisk
– 140 MB Email / 110 MB iDisk
– 144 MB Email / 106 MB iDisk
More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Most of us here at MDN have been bumping up against the 100MB limit for some time now, with some of us actually contemplating dumping the .Mac service due to storage concerns. With that no longer an issue, we’re all happy .Mac campers again! And $49 for 1GB is very reasonable for future expansion of our .Mac usage. Good move, Apple!
’bout time they upped the perks.
now…how about allowing us to “back up” our iTMS purchases.
damn good idea hairbo
The $49 is in addition to the $99 membership, right??
I agree, hairbo, I would love to be able to use my .mac account to back up my iTunes music.
how about adding events to a calendar from any computer and having it sync to you home computer like address book already does?
you can back up your iTunes purchases, using Backup. there is a setting control to back up iTunes – and i do believe purchased music as well.
addendum:
here is the link for info:
http://www.mac.com/1/iTour/tour_backup_b.html
webbyswim, i think what people mean is to be able to re-download purchased songs…not just backup the aac/mp3 files in your itunes library
10MB Maximum message size is completely useless though for anyone sending pro files back and forward.
.Mac mail is not even good for home use – my family MPEG vids regularly exceed 10MB in size.
Randy: That’s what iSync is for. You can sync as many calendars from as many locations as you want.
For large project files, I use a shareware app called FileChute. It uploads the file to iDisk and provides a link that you can email to your client or whoever. It’s neat and easy.
The advantage is that the file stays on your iDisk, so if you need to resend it, all you have to do is resend the link, rather than upload the whole file again.
This works better for me than straight emailing.
Nice to have more .mac storage, though, and be able to allocate it however I like.
John, do you really think that Apple is THAT lame? Check out…
http://www.mac.com/1/idisknewfeatures.html
and you’ll find…
Easy and convenient file sharing.
Your iDisk Public folder provides a great way to give and receive files that are too big to attach to email messages, like large full-resolution images, movie clips, GarageBand creations, and more. In fact you can even use HomePage to create a File Sharing page, making the contents of your Public folder accessible through just about any standard web browser.
There are 2 easy ways to access it.
1. via your HomePage at .Mac can be set up with an internet accessible Shared Folder.
2. Anyone (including the XPers) can download and use the iDisk Utility found at…
http://www.mac.com/1/idiskutility_download.html
I don’t know of any other OS and internet disk that works so seamlessly to where the internet disk looks and acts just like the computer’s harddrive.
XPers have NO CLUE what is possible via the internet or how easy it is to use until they see it in action on a Mac with a .Mac account.
@ john
Instead of sending your “pro” family MPEGs (do I smell an oxymoron here:-?) per e-mail you could set up the public folder of a .mac account to share them. Or use – how lame – CD-ROM and snail mail…
i was praying for 100mb at 19.99 free with new computer-250MB at 49.95-2GB at 99.95.
although not as good as I wanted, it is still okay.
Now I can recommend .mac to my friends again!
This is exactly what I was asking for.
to see what I’ve been doing with my extra space, see photo’s at
homepage.mac.com/daddysteve
no ad’s, just put it together to show my friends what I do for a living.
(Viewer discretion is advised for Sacramento Kings fans)
ME: What I am talking about is making changes to my calendar… say from work while on a PC then when I get home to my MAC it syncs and updates there. Like I can do thorugh .mac and address book.
To “john” regarding his use of pro files and vid files being sent via e-mail.
Hey Joe, dont you think it would make more sense to send “pro-files” using ftp or offline storage services instead of e-mail which is instead for messages not “file transfers”?
How hard would it be for a “pro” to simply use their .Mac iDisk space to post files for others to download. You can even secure a particular iDisk folder with a username and password.
BTW, ftp stands for File Transfer Protocol. It was invented so that people like you wouldn’t bog down the networks that service “e-mail messages”.
Get enlightened so that you can have a better computing experience.
Been waiting for Apple to upgrade email capacity. 15 MB was pathetic, but now with a combined space of 250 MB, it’s OK. Wish it were 500 MB. But at least Apple is doing something. Email-only accounts are now 50 MB. That’s also nice!
I was an original iTools user and have subscribed to .Mac since the beginning. I wrote to Apple two weeks ago and told them I was not renewing because it was no longer a good deal for only 100MB.
So you can all thank me (just kidding).
FINALLY, APPLE!
.Mac is awesome, but I could no longer justify it with a baby on the way.
T
“…now…how about allowing us to “back up” our iTMS purchases….”
This wouldn’t even cost them anything. Simply acknowledge that you purchased the music and allow you to download it again if you need to.
to daddysteve:
you’re good. good to know when i need some work done.
People use e-mail attachments for file transfers because that’s what they learned and it remains the most convenient method for them. Same with IM file transfers for other kinds of users. When other methods are at least as convenient and easy to learn/understand more people will eventually use them.
Yeah!! I have been waiting until the end here to renew my .mac, hoping that storage would be upgraded to more reasonable limits…. I have just renewed my account… may upgrade to 1 gig limit
Yea! Alias’s Yea!!!
yay, now my iDisk with 96Megs used is…well…useful, for other thigns again! And it’s really nice than you can adjust your memory allocations for Mail and iDisk.