I think I'm with everyone else that has written so far. You may not use everything on .mac, but we have found some things we find really useful. I do recommend it for basic web pages (I just helped out a family do their summer vacation - often on a 12 Powerbook with cell phone, so .mac ease of use was a plus). I don't use the email often, but do use iDisk and back up to some extent (I'm looking forward to Panther's features), and I like the synchronies Bookmarks feature a lot. I've published photos with iPhoto (I can bring the camera home and have them on the web in minutes). So I think many people well get benefit from it, and I figure the software I have received for free has cost more than .mac. (StickyBrain - which I have grown to like and likely never would have tried it, and the Sims, along with some other games, cost more than I paid for .mac.) -- Roger