Comments on: First Look: Time Capsule, AirPort, and Time Machine

By: Who Was the Biggest Loser at Macworld? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Who Was the Biggest Loser at Macworld? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:12:47 +0000

[...] First Look: Time Capsule, AirPort, and Time Machine Windows Home Server vs AirPort Extreme [...]

By: LyndellR

LyndellR — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:12:51 +0000

The frustrations over the external drive on the Airport Extreme is why I haven’t bought one. However, I’d still go for the Airport Extreme and my existing external drive. The terabyte WD World Book offers mirroring, what the Time Capsule doesn’t.

Since Time Capsule is a backup solution, it makes sense to use a server grade drive. They are more reliable and this is a backup solution after all.

Can either of these devices create the illustion that multiple external drives, or external and Time Capsules own drive are one volume?

By: russtic

russtic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:28:34 +0000

I agree, I too bought the AEBs and drive with the expectation of being able to use it with time machine (this functionality was attested by both the apple website and the apple retail shop). My hope is that they will update the AEB firmware to allow this.

(ps I KNOW that the website said ‘features subject to change…’)

By: AlanAudio

AlanAudio — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:14:57 +0000

This time last year, I bought an Airport Extreme Base Station and a 500GB hard drive so that I’d be able to do this sort of thing. Right up until just before Leopard was released, Apple were claiming that Time Machine would work wirelessly, but of course when it was released, that feature was quietly dropped.

I feel very annoyed at having to go out and buy another base station so that I can now do what I was originally led to believe I was going to be able to do.

At the very least, Apple should offer some very serious trade-in deals on AEBSs when trading up to Time Capsule.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:08:24 +0000

You knock CES for not having anything exciting, well the big news from MacWorld is a thin laptop. Big deal! There are several other brands that have lighter laptops. Yes, Macworld really was exciting! lol

[Well the Air, plus an expansion of wireless serving capabilities with Time Capsule that are actually practical (compared to the Windows Home Server joke that has consumed two CES events now), and then there's Apple TV, which will clean up the market for TVoIP and movie rentals, and then there's the advancement of the Touch and iPhone, which already lead mobile music and mobile phones by a wide margin. What else did you expect to see? What else could Apple have announced, a flying car? - Dan ]