Apple’s Time Capsule now shipping

Apple Online StoreApple’s Time Capsule, the wireless hard drive you can use to back up multiple Macs using Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, has begun shipping.

“Notifications of the shipments began reaching customers that pre-ordered the device early this morning,” reports Jim Dalrymple for Macworld.

Full article here.

29 Comments

  1. This may be a great add on but It’s a total CROC that Apple still hasn’t added compatibility with regular external drives. Those of us with a new base station no have to buy time capsule in order to wirelessly back up?

    I hope this isn’t apples way of just making money and forcing us to buy more products that we really don’t need when they do have the ability to make this function work with normal ExT Drives.

    We have the base stations, the drives, just give us a software/firmware update to Time Machine & the Base stations to make this work already ….!!!!!!

  2. I still want to know can i put all my tv shows and movies on time capsul then acess them from my apple tv? If so this would be great no need to stream from a computer and no need for the sink time to the apple tv.

  3. Just Google how.

    And SuperDuper is fine but it does NOT do what Time Machine does: effortless hourly and weekly histories, effortlessly browsed and retrieved when needed.

    Obviously if your drive is wireless then even Super Duper won’t get you to boot unless you have a MacBook air or OS X Server. But wireless is worth it.

  4. Very funny thread. I am the original Ampar. Whether you choose to believe it is your wrestle. Those with a modicum of intelligence and more spare time than me can figure it out pretty easily with a historical search and comparison.
    But thanks for the love and the hate. It’s just so damn funny.

    Back on topic, I’m going to have to get the 1 TB version. It’s plenty of room for backups including video.

    And off topic it might be more fun to return to the world of aliases.

    P.S. I have a cousin named Shlomo.

  5. I just picked up mine today at the local Apple Store. They were all out of the 500GB versions and he said I was getting the second to last 1TB version.

    I got it home and had some problems initially setting it up but I’m not really sure where the problem was. I just couldn’t connect to the Internet and my MacBook wasn’t seeing the drive. I reset the Time Capsule and reset my cable modem. I went back to my MacBook and it was seeing the Time Capsule and I was able to set everything up fine. I loaded the Airport utility on my PC and was able to browse to the Time Capsule in My Computer. I created a folder and saved a couple of JPEGs. I went back to the MacBook and was able to access the JPEGs just fine.

    I started running the Time Machine backup and will let it run overnight. Everything seems great so far.

  6. Bought the 1TB version along with AppleTV2

    Had some “issues” setting up- same as anypats. Did the reset- started all over. Works fine- so far. The irony of it all- My Intel iMac 20″ harddrive died. Yup- no kidding. Did a SuperDuper backup last week so I’m OK. Go figure.

    Anybody ever take apart an Intel iMac. Interesting- not the same as the iMac G5s thats for sure. I got it apart- getting a 400GB tomorrow replacing the 250GB. AppleTV will have to wait.

    Anyway- got a time machine backup running from my G5. Was also able to share the 1TB airdisk with WindowsXP (via Parallels)

    Works as advertised.

  7. Anybody know of a way to set up Time Machine to do auto backups on a MacBook if it’s not plugged in? When I am unplugged it says that the next backup is “When Mac is plugged in.” I can do a manual backup and it will do it while unplugged. I just want it to do the auto backups while unplugged or even set to do less frequent backups while unplugged.

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