Thursday, October 3, 2002

Don't Bother Two More Weeks To Save On .Mac [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] I did this upgrade a couple of weeks ago. I'm very disappointed. Backup, which is the big gain I saw in the .Mac upgrade, sucks. It breaks and almost never functions correctly. I'm not alone. Hundreds of messages on the .Mac message board and the subject is getting very little Apple attention. Save your money. This .Mac won't be worthwhile for a while. 9:39:08 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Apple's .Mac is a Borderline Joke, But it's Not Funny One of the major reasons I forked over $50 to Apple for a .Mac membership was the promise of transparent, reliable offline backup. What a joke. The Backkup utility Apple provides doesn't work in most circumstances when you use iDisk as your server. It is flaky at best and downright broken at worst. Apple evidently did extremely limited testing on this product/service, and now users are screaming (check out the backup discussion boards in the Help section at Apple's .Mac site). Apple owes those of us who coughed up the bucks extensions on our subscriptions month-for-month while they get this program actually working. It is discouraging! 4:50:09 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

More On OS X -- None of it Good Jaguar Increases Instability for Me Some applications, particularly Word:X, are much less stable on Jaguar than they were on OS X 10.1. Word on the street and the discussion boards is that this is because of some change Apple made in the way fonts are handled. I don't know. What I do know is that Word crashes on my Jaguar machine at least a half-dozen times a day. And the remedies suggested on Mactopia's discussion boards are drastic, time-consuming and, as far as I can tell, completely ineffective. More pissing contests with you-know-how in the middle of two giant corporations arguing about whose fault it is. What crap. 4:45:04 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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