Is MobileMe with iDisk Syncing equivalent to DropBox?

Is MobileMe with iDisk Syncing equivalent to DropBox?
Is it any faster or slower?
I think that the default file structure setup, which is the same as that of the Home folder, had me confused. Do I have this right? To use iDisk and iDisk syncing "properly," you just put the files in your iDisk that you want to keep available to multiple computers, not necessarily everything in your Documents folder going to the Documents folder on your iDisk etc. (i.e. the same things you might put in DropBox).
Now, let's say that you want to have your pictures (and perhaps even your iTunes) available to multiple computers that use the same MobileMe account; could you put your whole iPhoto library in the Pictures folder on your iDisk and then point your iPhoto application to that iPhoto library? If you did this how much of a speed hit would you take? If my assumption is correct, once it is synchronized, even if you were not connected to the Internet, your use of iPhoto shouldn't be speed-compromised and if you had added or changed a number of photos, that work would synchronize the next time you did connect.

All I can tell you is that I have Entourage syncing events to the iPhone via MobileMe/iCal fine (I'm not trying to sync contacts or email settings). (Although I don't really have accepted invites as I'm not on Exchange)
MobileMe offers free chat help--go to the support page, and wait a little bit or read a bit until the link shows up.

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