Apple already updated their email and iDisk storage.See here.

This shouldn't be insider-info. It should be a report.

Good news and about time!

These features have been in .Mac web mail for some time now. ;-)

Very Good news

Great news . I like the way you can adjust the balance between email and iDisk too.

Dave.

I got this message. Twice.

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:52:51 PDT
To: .Mac user <noreply@mac.com>
From: "Apple Computer" <noreply@mac.com>
Subject: Enhancements to your .Mac account
X-ref: account upgrade
X-Mailer: Apple .Mac Mailer

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. If you see this message, then you aren't using a MIME compliant mail reader.

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Dear .Mac member,

We're excited to announce that your .Mac membership now comes with 250 MB of combined .Mac Mail and iDisk storage. And, in another move designed to make life easier as traffic grows heavier and files grow larger, we've increased the maximum email message size to 10 MB.

If you haven't tried them yet, be sure to check out two additional enhancements recently added to .Mac Mail. There's a new online spell checker with a customizable dictionary available when you use your .Mac Mail account through a browser. And you can now use aliases as email addresses either for fun or as protection when you need to provide an email address but aren't entirely comfortable with the requester. If your concerns turn out to be justified, you can then simply remove the alias and create a new one the next time you face a similar situation.

We value your membership and hope you enjoy these enhancements to your .Mac service.

Sincerely,
The .Mac Team

Apple respects your privacy. Information regarding your personal information can be viewed at http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy

Copyright 2004 Apple Computer. All rights reserved
http://www.apple.com/legal


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(chopped out the rest -- Eudora is set in text-only mode)

Blah. they got me excited for a second. It's 125 megs each for iDisk and email. I was really hopping that it was going to be 250 megs that you could use however you wanted across email and iDisk. I really don't need 125 megs of email. I would much rather have that all put towards my iDisk, which only saw a 25 MB bump. I really don't want to spend $50 for a gig for storage either. The iDisk should really be at least 500 MB and email should be unlimited... especially when we are paying $100 a year for this.

Is anyone's iDisk quick enough to actually use it?

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, but it is always very slow for me -- not just u/l, but it seems to slow down the computer as well.

Dogcow,

As Dave noted above, you can adjust the amount of each. I just changed mine to 50 email, 200 iDisk.

I think the new offering is quite an improvement; the best part is that we can now allocate storage between email and iDisk to suit our own individual needs. Personally, I think I will also go with 50 eMail / 200 iDisk.
The aquafied bar graph that shows how much storage is used in each department is also pretty cool (.Mac members will have to log in and go to Account > Storage Settings to see it.).