Time-Capsule posts

Filed under: Accessories, Airport, Apple

Time Capsule vs. Airport Extreme

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Mar 3rd, 2008

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.

Tags: airport-extreme, apple, time-capsule

Filed under: Hardware, Airport, Leopard

Time Machine works with USB external HDs on Time Capsule

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Mar 2nd, 2008

Over at Macworld, Glenn Fleishman has an initial hands-on report about Apple's new Time Capsule combination Airport Base Station and NAS, and he's confirmed something folks were wondering about: "you can also perform Time Machine backups to drives attached to the Time Capsule via USB." This is interesting, because Apple originally said that Time Machine backups would be possible to an AirDisk (that is, an USB external drive on the regular AirPort Extreme Base Station).

Just before Leopard shipped, that feature quietly disappeared, leaving some early-adopters who had counted on that capability in the lurch. The obvious questions now are whether there's any technical reason why Time Machine to AirDisk wouldn't work on the AEBS, and whether Apple is holding the feature back just to promote the Time Capsule. In any case, it's good to know that if you get a Time Capsule you're not limited to the internal storage, perhaps making the smaller 500GB model that much more attractive.

Tags: AEBS, AirPort Extreme Base Station, AirportExtremeBaseStation, Time Capsule, Time Machine, Time-Capsule, Time-Machine, TimeCapsule, TimeMachine

Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Apple

Engadget unboxes a Time Capsule

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Feb 29th, 2008

My Time Capsule is sitting somewhere in China at the moment, but our friends over at Engadget managed to get their hands on one, and they have even posted some unboxing pictures. They note that the device itself is a little larger than you might think it is based on looking at the pictures on Apple.com. I'm sure they will post more once they put the Time Capsule through the paces.

I'll certainly be posting my first impressions once I get my Time Capsule up and running.

Tags: time-capsule, unboxing

Filed under: Accessories, Apple

Time Capsule: shipping now

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Feb 28th, 2008

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I penned a post reassuring people that the Time Capsule would, in fact, be shipping on time (where on time is 'by the end of February'). We are now getting reports that people who pre-order the Time Capsule are receiving shipping notifications. See? Nothing to worry about.

Sadly, my Time Capsule is still being prepared for shipment, but it should ship by tomorrow. Soon I will not have to hang my head in shame when someone asks me about my backup strategy.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Tags: backup, shipping, time-capsule

Filed under: Accessories, Odds and ends, Apple

February is almost over, where is my Time Capsule?

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Feb 27th, 2008

The iPhone SDK isn't the only product that is supposed to be ready for the world by the end of this month (though it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for our iPhone SDK): Time Capsule should be available by the end of this month as well.

Time Capsule, you'll remember, is network attached storage (either 500 gig or 1TB) that is designed to work seamlessly with Time Machine. The idea is that you plunk one of these down on your network (or use it to create a wireless network) and then have all your Macs back up to it.

Many readers are asking us where the heck the Time Capsule is. Apple has a few more days before they miss their deadline, and if my order status is any indication those that ordered Time Capsules from Apple fairly soon after the announcement should see them ship on, or a tiny bit before, Feb. 29 (and they may pop up in Best Buy too).

I bet there are some people in Cupertino who are very glad 2008 is a leap year.

Tags: apple, backup, time-capsule, time-machine

Filed under: Macworld, Video, Steve Jobs

Mahalo Daily's 60 second Keynote

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 17th, 2008

Don't have enough time to watch the whole keynote from the other day? Worry not-- our good friends (including Veronica Belmont) at Mahalo Daily have condensed Steve's whole 90 minute presentation (including the musical stylings of Randy Newman) into this quick sixty second breakdown. Thrill to the announcement of Time Capsule! Gasp at the reveal of the MacBook Air! Wonder idly just who Randy is singing to during that song from Toy Story.

I of course read our liveblog as it happened, and was planning to watch the video separately, but after seeing this, I've seen all I have to. Now if only we could make the wait to the next Stevenote (and the reveal of the iPhone SDK?) go as quickly.

Tags: better-and-better-and-better, iphone, itunes, macworld08, mahalo-daily, steve-jobs, stevenote, time-capsule, video

Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, Analysis / Opinion, Airport, Internet, Apple, Leopard

Time Capsule backs up your Macs

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 15th, 2008

Apple has released Time Capsule, a NAS (network-attached storage, I'll admit I'm so far from an IT guy that I had to look it up) unit that will wirelessly sync with multiple instances of Time Machine, all the while also working as an 802.11n base station (there are three included ethernet ports as well). Time Capsule has wireless backup, wireless networking, and even a USB port for networked printing, a networked hard drive, or both with a USB hub.

And perhaps most amazing is the sheer size available-- it's $399 for a 500gb hard drive, and $499 for a 1 TB hard drive. Sure, that's a little pricey if you've got only one or two computers at home, but $500 for a complete (and completely wireless) backup solution for a house full of computers is a pretty nice setup. This definitely won't cause as much of a stir as the iPhone updates or the MacBook Air today, but for someone who's been seeking a backup solution for a whole house of computers, Time Capsule has to be pretty good news.

It's available for preorder right now, and will release in February.

Tags: 802.11n, backup, macworld08, nas, networking, time-capsule, time-machine, tweet-this, usb

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