Time Capsule vs. Airport Extreme

If I am already are using Airport Extreme and a separate 500 GB hard drive in my home wi-fi, does this mean that I would have to replace both with Time Capsule just to have wireless backup with Time Machine on my MacBook Pro?

I wish they would standardise the footprints of these things, a mac mini, AE, time capsule and Apple tV would look crazy all together.

don't be too sure about the "soon" part, my macbook pro was in shanghai for a couple of days before it actually shipped and then went by way of anchorage and then newark to finally arive in philly (nice to know that there are other philly mac users though)

That thing looks huge! I mean, it makes sense, the Airport extreme size, plus a hard drive, but still -- wow.

The Time Capsule has the same footprint as the Apple TV, but it is about a quarter to half inch taller.

Wow, a lot bigger than I imagined!

And Joe, it's good to see that you locked your other web galleries!

Wow, I didn't expect it to be that large actually...bur I can't afford one right now anyway...! And like so many others I bought an AP Extreme and a large HDD shortly before 10.5 arrived, just to learn that the TimeMachine feature had been removed...

Besides, I've never had that many problems with a single piece of Apple hardware as with the APE, that overpriced piece of garbage has been driving me nuts ever since I got it...so I probably wouldn't want to invest in TimeCapsule anyway...! :(

The TC looks about the same size as the ATV?

Is there a guide somewhere of how to make the APE's USB hard drive work with time machine? All I have been able to find is some people saying you can, some say you can't but nobody is saying how or why.

If it doesn't work that is crap. I already own a 500gb hard drive, I don't need to buy one from Apple.