Seattle Times reviews Apple Time Capsule: Easy automatic backups for your Mac
Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 10:06 AM EDT"If you'd rather never think about making backups, Time Capsule makes it even easier to forget about them. Time Machine requires either free space on a drive inside your Mac or connected to it, or a drive shared over the network from another system running Leopard. But it can also work with drives inside and connected to Time Capsule," Glenn Fleishman reports for The Seattle Times.
"The notion with Time Capsule is that you plug it in, run through some basic network configuration, and then point Time Machine to Time Capsule's drive on all the machines on your network running Leopard," Fleishman reports.
"Time Capsule combines all the features and ports of an AirPort Extreme Base Station with Draft N (the fastest current flavor of Wi-Fi) with an internal hard drive, either 500 gigabytes ($299) or 1 terabyte ($499). Like an AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule has four gigabit Ethernet ports and a USB port for attaching one or more printers and hard drives that can be shared over a network," Fleishman reports.
"While the cost may seem high, Apple says they didn't cheap out on the included drive, using the same hardware they put in their high-end servers. It's a good deal: take the $179 for an AirPort Extreme Base Station and couple it with an inexpensive external drive of the same capacities, and you're well above $300 or $500," Fleishman reports.
"If you don't use 802.11n on your own network already — and thus could use a network upgrade — you'll be happy with the range, while the tight software integration with Leopard makes it even less effort to keep backups current and automated," Fleishman reports.
Full article, in which Fleishman also covers Apple's new 802.11n AirPort Express, here.
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I feel compelled to make yet another whining comment about the fact that my Air Port Extreme still doesn't work with Time Machine, even though I bought it because Apple said it would. Then, mysteriously, all record of Apple saying this dissapeared, followed shortly thereafter with this "Time Capsule" solution. This might be the most openly evil thing Apple has done since I have become one of the "devotees."