Brief Hands-On Report--Mac OS X Update for MobileMe 1.1

Apple released Mac OS X Update for MobileMe 1.1 to implement MobileMe for .Mac customers. It is available only via Software Update if you have a .Mac account.

According to Apple,

The Mac OS X Update For MobileMe is recommended for users running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 and includes general system fixes that enhance your Mac for MobileMe.

The update installs a new icon in the System Preferences application for MobileMe that replaces the .Mac icon on the Internet & Network row (see above). MobileMe doubles a member's online storage from 10GB to 20GB but when I click on the MobileMe icon it still shows 5GB for Mail and 5GB for iDisk, the former amounts. If I click on the Account Details button, the correct 20GB is shown as 15GB for iDisk and 5GB for Mail.

MobileMe is setup using the instructions on this Apple web page. It is still pretty slow, reflecting the high load on Apple's servers due to the switchover from .Mac and the activation of iPhone 3G sales, so I have no real experience to relate just yet. Some things apparently didn't make the .Mac to MobileMe transition. My hosted web site, WWFOX.Com, constructed with iWeb did not make it intact. However, all of my older .Mac Homepages and Photo Galleries made the transition.

I have (had?) two .Mac accounts, one personal and the other that I use for business/work activities. Unfortunately, it is not easy to use both under MobileMe on the same Mac because MobileMe assumes I have only one account, the personal one. I can log on the business MobileMe account with the System Preferences icon but when I click the Account Details button I get the personal account's details in Safari. In order to fully access my business MobileMe account I have to use Camino as my web browser and deny use of my keychain. [Bill Fox]