“This two-in-one design allows you to back up every Mac in the home over your home network, eliminating a great deal of clutter and complexity. The pricing is also pretty good, if still higher than the cost of a separate hard drive and router: A 500-gigabyte model Time Capsule sells for just $299, while a one-terabyte unit goes for $499,” Pegoraro reports.
“Apple loaned a 1-TB review model in March (note that its actual capacity was 929.5 GB, according to Mac OS X), and since then its primary trait has been a near-complete lack of drama,” Pegoraro reports.
“For a single-Mac home, Time Capsule is probably overkill (although if you keep your router in a separate room from the computer, it might spare you the agony of having your computer and your backup drive stolen in the same break-in). For a home with more than one Mac running Leopard, though, I can’t think of a simpler, easier backup system than Time Capsule,” Pegoraro reports.
Full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: After several rave reviews, it’s safe to say that Apple has solved the backup conundrum by making it automatic, intuitive, and wireless.
Time capsule rules. One of the best investments I have made. Its like insurance. I wonder when M$ will rebrand that shadow copy thing as “Microsoft Windows Live Back in time Pod”…… Morons.
Can it backup all my brain’s information and memory… and transfer it into a computer or and android’s chip and make it alive?
“I wonder when M$ will rebrand that shadow copy thing as “Microsoft Windows Live Back in time Pod”…… Morons”
Typical Apple fanboy comment… always comparing Apple products to MS. Incapable of thinking in pure objectivity. Very very disappointing!!!
Has this guy ever touched one?
“in an enclosure no bigger than a regular AirPort Extreme router” — NOT. It definitely is quite a bit bigger than an Airport Extreme. I have owned both. I would guess at least an inch wider. But they certainly look the same in the photos.
“Typical Apple fanboy comment… always comparing Apple products to MS. Incapable of thinking in pure objectivity. Very very disappointing!!!”
Typical M$ fanboy trolling the Apple sites looking to start the war up. Its not your fault. Years of using windows has made you cranky and confrontational.. Take 2 macs and call me in the morning
“Can it backup all my brain’s information and memory… and transfer it into a computer or and android’s chip and make it alive?” – yes, but what does it do with the 99.9% of the space left on the hard disk after your brain has been uploaded?
;-p
So instead of it being 953.67 gb, it’s 929.5 gb… ok thats certainly some news.
Ignore Mac+, he’s an M$ shill being paid to write crap.
He’s in Ballmer’s pocket, urgh.
I was ahead of you guys on this one, as you can tell by my comments on that site yesterday.
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I like mine a lot so far. Last night I was watching some TV shows from it wirelessly while an XP machine was backing up to it wired. No signs of hesitation at all, which was quite impressive.
I have not been able to figure out how to do a couple things though. One is change the name of the wireless network. It used the name that my old Linksys router was configured for. I would like to change it to something different in case I need to bring the Linksys back online for something. I would also like to configure it to 802.11n only and WPA2. I cannot find where to set it to 802.11n only and the WPA2 setting reverts back to WPA after I set it.
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Nice. I just grabbed gCal.app. Thanks.
“For a single-Mac home, Time Capsule is probably overkill”
Why is that?
Is he implying a single computer doesn’t need to get backed up? Plus if you were going to upgrade your wireless situation as well, it’s a no brainer to get Time Capsule—buy both backup and wireless in one compact package in another room, not adding to the clutter on the desk as a separate back up container would.
@macoverdose….
I’m with Ampar… nice site. I just grabed imedia browser
” (although if you keep your router in a separate room from the computer, it might spare you the agony of having your computer and your backup drive stolen in the same break-in)”
Thats how we are using ours! our living area is on the 1st floor, with our bedrooms on the 2nd, each bedroom has its own Air Cond. so at night our doors are shut, and we really fear someone breaking in down stairs. down stairs I have our APExtreme, “N” with my iMac hooked by ethernet, and a 500GB lacie HD that contains our iTunes libray (380GB)
Then we have everything backing up on our TC 1TB , that is located next to my bed.
@ Ampar
No prob… enjoy… got lots more of good stuff there.. check back anytime for updates!
This may be obvious to many of you, but anyway: Why wasn’t Time Capsule designed with a standard telephone jack (RJ45?) and ADSL circuitry? …I would like to have replaced my current ADSL WiFi router with Time Capsule.
@Mac+
Can it backup all my brain’s information and memory… and transfer it into a computer or and android’s chip and make it alive?
Get a pensieve
@Newbie
This may be obvious to many of you, but anyway: Why wasn’t Time Capsule designed with a standard telephone jack (RJ45?) and ADSL circuitry? …I would like to have replaced my current ADSL WiFi router with Time Capsule.
They should have also included cable modem hardware so I can ditch my Cox cable modem. A card reader would be nice too!
My Time Capsule backs up four networked macs at home and I keep it attached to the ceiling in a very innocuous place. If someone does break into my house and steals the macs, all my data is likely safe due to the fact that the Time Capsule is virtually invisible in its unobtrusive white case. The fact that it looks like a smoke detector is a huge bonus.
If Dell or HP made Time Capsule, it would have an ugly case with stickers all over it and antennae jutting out from each side.
When it works its great… Theres alot of posts on apples site about this thing currupting backups or simply dying after a months use. My entire backup has had to be recreated a few times.
Time Capsule is the sliced bread of backups.
I even use it for my Tiger machines along with SuperDuper.
Daily incrementals and then an end of the week full backup.
Its to the point where I’ve ‘forgotten’ its there. It just works.
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I love it. Beautiful.
Once setup, adding my wife’s MacBook was as easy as assigning it to the Time Capsule drive. Very very cool indeed.
I feel the need to point out that Apple still has not released a patch to let the Airport Extreme + USB HDD work with Time Machine. They promised this when Airport Extreme was announced, which is one of the BIG reasons I bought the Airport Extreme.
@ Logan
it is possible without any hacks or anything. They had a long article and tutorial for it at TUAW. I’m not sure if apple officially supports it though. Go check out the tutorial at TUAW and you’ll be up and running.
sweet apple rules,
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