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Time Capsule vs. Airport Extreme
I'm a little Time Capsule obsessed, it is true (mine is in the Philippines at the moment. Soon it will be in Philadelphia and I will be a happy boy). Joe Kohlmann sent us along his pictures of his newly arrived Time Capsule sitting next to, and underneath, his Airport Extreme. If you have trouble imagining dimensions (the Time Capsule's dimensions are well known) these pictures will give you a good idea of what you should expect from Time Capsule.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jim said 12:12PM on 3-03-2008
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.
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Frank Furter said 12:25PM on 3-03-2008
Actually, it sounds like you -do- need to buy one from Apple.
ars_workerbee said 12:26PM on 3-03-2008
you can, sure, and there are instructions like this, but its unsupported for a reason. it doesn't work.
and before you jump on the bandwagon of "zomg apple isn't enabling it to force people to buy time capsules", well, just don't. that's ridiculous.
ars_workerbee said 12:26PM on 3-03-2008
arg, lost the link. the instructions are (among other places) here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/10/how-to-enable-time-machine-on-unsupported-volumes/
Will said 1:11PM on 3-03-2008
I'd be cautious about doing it though. I've heard reports that using this technique causes _all_ of your backups to be erased when the drive fills up. If that's true, it's almost certainly not worth trying.
Mo said 1:08PM on 3-03-2008
The TC looks about the same size as the ATV?
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Tony said 1:41PM on 3-03-2008
Boo … I wanted to stack mine under a Mac Mini. Now I know that’ll look silly. It’s going to have to be hidden away out of sight instead.
MILE said 1:15PM on 3-03-2008
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...! :(
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krye said 1:41PM on 3-03-2008
Wow, a lot bigger than I imagined!
And Joe, it's good to see that you locked your other web galleries!
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nakedmac said 2:12PM on 3-03-2008
The Time Capsule has the same footprint as the Apple TV, but it is about a quarter to half inch taller.
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Chris Thomson said 4:10PM on 3-03-2008
That thing looks huge! I mean, it makes sense, the Airport extreme size, plus a hard drive, but still -- wow.
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Jake said 7:14PM on 3-03-2008
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)
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starwxrwx said 9:30PM on 3-03-2008
I wish they would standardise the footprints of these things, a mac mini, AE, time capsule and Apple tV would look crazy all together.
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Arthur Chen said 4:59PM on 3-10-2008
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?
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