Comments on: DropBox vs iDisk- it’s not even a contest

By: Jeremiah Kelly

Jeremiah Kelly — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:54 +0000

I’ve had .mac for years now and find that dropbox is far superior. I have projects that I share with others, use a PC desktop, Mac desktop and a Mac laptop and iPhone. All seamlessly integrated. Shame iDisc isn’t as good.

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By: Ali Muhammad

Ali Muhammad — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:21:02 +0000

I am really impressed with the simplicity and undemanding performance of Dropbox. Over the years, since the inception of .Mac and its giving to both iDisk/MobileMe I have thought it second rate. There have been spinning wheels, the forever syncing scenario and sync conflict messages that baffled me. During this period I have run 5 different Macs which, even as they advanced in processing power and memory all reacted the same to iDisk. Yes, I use its space for archiving files, that’s all, its realtime syncing is just not snappy enough.
Welcome Dropbox. Today I migrated all of my files across without effort, both iPhone and MacBook carry all my work in progress. I love the understatement. The no nonsense and the ease with which what used to be a fingers-crossed exercise is now nothing more than the saving of a file, as it should be. Well done for falling into my in box last week sent by someone who I don’t know.

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:43:30 +0000

I love my MobileMe account…BUT, as several others have already stated, there’s no competition between iDisk and Dropbox in terms of performance. The same 10mb folder took nearly 10 times longer to sync with my iDisk than it did with my Dropbox. And Dropbox has an iPad app out which makes the switch even more compelling (you can open the iPhone formatted app for iDisk on the iPad, but its small size renders it useless). Anyway, kudos to the Dropbox team for creating a simple but stellar product.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:42:50 +0000

Been fighting with iDisk for hours trying to get it to sync THINGS for Mac on two computers. Got sync failure messages over and over, when it did sync, it was so inconsistent (like one out of 5-10 time it got it right). Other times I got sync conflict messages over and over. Finally I just gave up.

I set the whole thing up on DropBox in a few minutes and it’s working flawlessly– in fact the moment I close THINGS on one computer a Growl notification pops up on my laptop confirming the sync… real time.

If you are looking to sync THINGS this is what worked for me: http://chriscoyier.net/2009/01/03/syncing-things-across-multiple-computers-with-dropbox/

Now, that said, I’ve had no problem at all using iDisk for documents like PDFs that I later access on my iPad, iPhone, etc. So, I’m not abandoning iDisk, it’s just didn’t work for the THINGS sync.

By: Max Graham

Max Graham — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:07:34 +0000

i have just been fighting with both, iDisk is such a pain!… Dropbox feels a lot nicer and doesn’t force me to sift through other folders… but the dropbox iphone app is giving me problems for now.

Still, it’s dropbox hands down.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:26:36 +0000

Have to say MobileMe works fine, and the dropbox daemon does hit performance. I understand that MobileMe is “anti-poor,” but dropbox offers 50GB for 9.99 a month ($120) while Apple offers mobileMe (via Amazon) 20GB for $65 a year. That’s pretty close, especially considering the other services that MobileMe offers.

By: BSM

BSM — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:11:18 +0000

MobileMe’s iDisk uses a Compressed file which uploading takes time. DropBox is uncompressed and works faster and better. I’ve had too many issues with Mobile me a dropped it. I got DropBox for file sync, and XMarks for BookMark sync (free) so all works good at a lower rate.

By: Zachary Katz

Zachary Katz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:12:52 +0000

Dropbox has made lots of big strides it seems in reducing the overhead of the application. It is by FAR the best app for memory and processor use.

I use it for backing up all of my business files, and it’s great because it also includes unlimited version backup as well. Go Dropbox!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:38 +0000

DropBox is NOT seamless… in theory it *IS* awesome, however, I’ve noticed that my VERY FAST Mac operates VERY SLUGGISHLY when Dropbox is active.

Anyone else notice this ?