Apple’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.
Ampar is hilarious.
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.
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.
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.