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What are your thoughts on MobileMe?
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<blockquote data-quote="richsadams" data-source="post: 982249" data-attributes="member: 115683"><p>I guess the question you have to ask yourself is what do you want? I use MobileMe and really appreciate its ability to sync my Mail, Address Book, Calendar, etc. I save my documents file to it periodically as a JIC measure (if both my Mac and TimeMachine were to evaporate for some reason). If I get another Mac or do a "scrape and pave" on one I have I can be back up and running in no time. I also enjoy having an @me.com e-mail address.</p><p></p><p>On the flip-side I find it clunky and unlike most Apple programs, unintuitive to use. My iTunes and iPhoto libraries are too large to back up on MobileMe unless I pay extra. Compared to other backup services MobileMe can be expensive.</p><p></p><p>Besides the paid backup services there are free alternatives like Google Sync. Here are a couple of good articles about MobileMe and some alternatives:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/134025/2008/06/mobileme.html" target="_blank">MobileMe: What you need to know | Web Services | Macworld</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/138481/2009/01/mobilemealternatives.html" target="_blank">Alternatives to MobileMe | Mobile Mac | Mobile Mac | Macworld</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://theappleblog.com/2009/05/13/free-mobileme-alternative-how-to-set-up-google-sync-for-mac-and-iphone/" target="_blank">Free MobileMe Alternative: How to Set Up Google Sync for Mac and iPhone</a></p><p></p><p>So it really depends on what you want to do. Hope that helps a little and let us know what you end up doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="richsadams, post: 982249, member: 115683"] I guess the question you have to ask yourself is what do you want? I use MobileMe and really appreciate its ability to sync my Mail, Address Book, Calendar, etc. I save my documents file to it periodically as a JIC measure (if both my Mac and TimeMachine were to evaporate for some reason). If I get another Mac or do a "scrape and pave" on one I have I can be back up and running in no time. I also enjoy having an @me.com e-mail address. On the flip-side I find it clunky and unlike most Apple programs, unintuitive to use. My iTunes and iPhoto libraries are too large to back up on MobileMe unless I pay extra. Compared to other backup services MobileMe can be expensive. Besides the paid backup services there are free alternatives like Google Sync. Here are a couple of good articles about MobileMe and some alternatives: [url=http://www.macworld.com/article/134025/2008/06/mobileme.html]MobileMe: What you need to know | Web Services | Macworld[/url] [url=http://www.macworld.com/article/138481/2009/01/mobilemealternatives.html]Alternatives to MobileMe | Mobile Mac | Mobile Mac | Macworld[/url] [url=http://theappleblog.com/2009/05/13/free-mobileme-alternative-how-to-set-up-google-sync-for-mac-and-iphone/]Free MobileMe Alternative: How to Set Up Google Sync for Mac and iPhone[/url] So it really depends on what you want to do. Hope that helps a little and let us know what you end up doing. [/QUOTE]
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