We recently bought .Mac for our 90 year old mother, who loves email & surfing on her iMac, but needs a very stable, simple platform. She recently moved to an independent living apartment with high speed internet, but the provider does not provide email addresses and expects users to access web-based email, which we know is just too confusing & too many steps for our mother, who is very used to Apple Mail. Now she has a .mac address, completely integrated by the Apple OS, & it took less than 5 minutes. Yes, it's an expensive mailbox, but I'm so glad it is available.