“The Airport Extreme now features ‘a technology called multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to transmit multiple data streams simultaneously… Improvements in antenna design give you up to 50 percent better performance and up to 25 per cent better range than with the previous-generation AirPort Extreme Base Station,'” Mellor reports.
Mellor reports, “Time Capsule has an Airport Extreme router packaged inside it, and has backup data sent to it from wireless-connected Macs.”
Full article here.
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Why didn’t they do this when the changed the drive capacity of Time Capsule? I bought one then. Now, they improve it a few months later.
@Doh!,
Because they wanted to mess with you, only you and nobody but you.
@Doh!,
They got me the same way.
Well, they messed with me too. Bought right after the capacities when up. Silly me.
@Duh!
You just get off the boat, buddy? Apple has been doing this for years.
Its a mechanism to reveal the whining ass babies from everyone else.
And in six months there will be some other tweak that will maketoday’s buyers feel they missed out.
Hey, I just got a brand new iMac a couple months ago.
Apple Time Capsules go belly up after 18 months, and Apple won’t replace them unless you have AppleCare. My TC died two weeks ago. The TC memorial web site, timecapsuledead.org, has registered over 500 TC’s since it went up earlier this month. I brought this issue to MDN’s attention, but he ignored it, despite being covered by engadget, cnet and TUAW. Stay away from the TC until it gets proper ventilation or you will have a paperweight on your hands after a year and a half.
If Apple didn’t drag people kicking and screaming, we’d still be using floppies. With AAPL, getting screwed by updates every 2 months is part of the price of admission. I’m surprised M$’s retarded ad campaigns haven’t spun it as part of the “Apple Tax”.
I believe the article is incorrect in claiming “The Airport Extreme now features ‘a technology called multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…”
the previous version of the AP Extreme also used MIMO, just that it was in a 2×2 configuration, whereas this new one is 3×3
see:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/10/apple-quietly-boosts-airport-extreme-and-time-capsule-speed.ars
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2009/10/apple_slipstreams_3x3_into_wi-fi_base_stations.html
People who don’t want to buy Applecare would be wise to use an American Express card to buy their products. It will double the warranty, up to three years. For gods sake people, use your brains. I’ve have a three year old airport and it works just fine but I don’t expect it to last for ever.
This looks like a great upgrade!
I bought an Airport Extreme a couple of years ago. A month later Apple upgraded the Ethernet ports to gigabit. Oh well. technology marches onward.
@MacAdvocate. Apple upgrades every 9 months to a year, not every 2 months. You just have to learn to time your purchases correctly or keep an ample supply of hankies around.
MS would NEVER bring up the fact that Apple is constantly abandoning old technologies and replacing it with new.
Parallel and VGA ports in 2009 anyone? For MS, the answer is YES!
@Igads
You are an idiot. A hard drive should last longer than a year under normal wear and tear. As TC is used for back up, I would have hoped Apple would have extensively tested this design and all components involved.
@iGads
I’m curious to hear how Apple handles a warranty repair with an extended credit card warranty vs. AppleCare. I seriously doubt you’d get the same turnaround time.
For me, AppleCare is a tax write-off, but I’ve also been very pleased and satisfied with the AppleCare repairs I’ve had done.
You’d have to not care about your data to use a Time Capsule. These things are dying at a phenomenal rate. Apple’s support forums are stuffed to the gills with complaints over dying TC’s at 18 months. People are losing tons of data with these things. They seem to be overheating pretty bad. A very poor design.
I’m glad I waited to buy the dual band AirPort Extreme. Hopefully, I will get one next month.
…”I’m curious to hear how Apple handles a warranty repair with an extended credit card warranty”
They treat it as an out-of-warranty repair, i.e. exactly the same as ANY other repair. When you bring in your dead device to a genius bar (or an authorised repair shop, or send it into Apple’s warranty repair centre), they first check for warranty/AppleCare. If it’s there, they will diagnose and repair automatically. If it isn’t, then they’ll diagnose, notify you, ask for the go-ahead and repair it. With a credit card coverage, you submit your repair bills and they reimburse you to your card.
My TC has performed flawlessly. I bought the first 1 TB version when it came out. The automatic wireless back-ups have saved my wife many times (she has a tendency to accidentally delete stuff from time to time).
“I’m curious to hear how Apple handles a warranty repair with an extended credit card warranty vs. AppleCare. I seriously doubt you’d get the same turnaround time.”
Apple doesn’t handle it at all. AmEx would cover it like an insurance claim, I imagine. They would cover a certain monetary value; if your stuff breaks, you probably get a credit to your account and a letter saying, “Have fun at the Apple Store!”
Oh, Pedrag has a more accurate answer. Most excellent.
My TC died after 18 months. Is that ‘server grade’?
Will not be buying one till the case is redesigned – Metal AND vents/fan.
As far as AppleCare is concerned, it is not an option when buying just the TC. The following is from the Apple Store website
“The Apple Care Protection Plan does provide extended warranty coverage, but ONLY if you buy the Time Capsule together with a Mac computer. They have to be on the same receipt, and the Apple Care purchased at the same time. If you already own your Mac and were thinking of adding the Time Capsule, you will have only the one-year warranty with no option to extend it.”
@Joe – I believe the TCs are dying not because of the ‘industrial grade hard drive’ but rather a power supply issue.
Check out this link next time you are in the market to upgrade an Apple product to avoid the refresh blues.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
I bought my Time Capsule in March ’08 and have had no problems to this point. I too have heard that the problem was power supply related. Maybe Apple should just forgo the svelte styling for once and use an external supply. I’m sure the unit would stay cooler.
Yes, it is the capacitors that are causing the massive amount of Time Capsule failures, not the hard drives. You must not rely on your TC if it is over 1 year old. Your data is totally at risk.
@me mo
Thanks for the links!