
Mac users get the full meal deal, of course. What’s unclear is how you can access and use this storage. An additional 40 GB of storage is $99 a year. You get 20 GB of storage with an individual MobileMe account and can add an additional 20 GB of storage for $49 per year. On the storage side, Apple does (as before) offer additional storage, and it’s more reasonably priced than it was during the. Aperture does not come with Mac OS X.Īside from the obvious stuff (Back To My Mac is Mac-only, go figure), what stands out here is that while Apple is finally starting to support native Vista applications (Windows Mail, Windows Contacts), it still requires Outlook for calendar sync, which is a shame as Vista’s Windows Calendar application is very similar to iCal and would work fine. Apple iPhoto, iMovie, and iWeb are part of iLife ‘08 and do not come with Mac OS X, but do come with new Mac computers. Outlook costs about $100 and does not come with Windows.

Notes: All Mac features work on both Tiger and Leopard unless otherwise noted. Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Contacts Here’s a first attempt at a table describing how the various MobileMe features map across Mac, Windows, and iPhone/iPod touch: Feature But I think it will be interesting to investigate the differences between the Mac and PC experiences on MobileMe. That makes a certain amount of sense, obviously: On the Mac side, Apple has the iLife apps and so forth. Working through the information that’s available now for the preview, I’m struck by how much more functionality Mac users get. With this in mind, I’ll be previewing and then reviewing MobileMe.

Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of.
