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Whackintosh
Mar 25, 2009, 02:40 PM
I won't be getting my Imac for another few weeks and my desktop is still a PC, but I'm ready to get a Time Capsule now to set up a wireless netowrk here in the meantime. My big question is, if I initialize it using it with a PC, will it become difficult to set up properly once a Mac becomes my main desktop later?


iLog.Genius
Mar 25, 2009, 03:24 PM
I won't be getting my Imac for another few weeks and my desktop is still a PC, but I'm ready to get a Time Capsule now to set up a wireless netowrk here in the meantime. My big question is, if I initialize it using it with a PC, will it become difficult to set up properly once a Mac becomes my main desktop later?

No. Time Capsule isn't anything special, it's just another router with a HDD built in.
txnoob
Mar 25, 2009, 03:28 PM
No. Time Capsule isn't anything special, it's just another router with a HDD built in.

+1 Agreed. Just an expensive router with a HD attached to it.
wetrix
Mar 25, 2009, 07:02 PM
+2. It's a BIG expensive router with HDD attached,
Whackintosh
Mar 26, 2009, 04:40 AM
I know, the price is a shaft, but my desk area is only so large, and I can really use the space-saving aspect of this thing. So as far as eventually using it with Time Machine with an Imac, nothing hard drive-wise will be corrupted or otherwise weirded or skewered if I have it hooked to my PC for a bit first?
nickcliborne
Mar 26, 2009, 04:50 AM
I know, the price is a shaft, but my desk area is only so large, and I can really use the space-saving aspect of this thing. So as far as eventually using it with Time Machine with an Imac, nothing hard drive-wise will be corrupted or otherwise weirded or skewered if I have it hooked to my PC for a bit first?

When you're not around the time capsule will do a virtual battle with your Windows machine. I would keep them as far away from one another as possible. The only reason Lord Jobs allows Windows to run on his hardware is to allow all the engineers a stable platform at Microsoft to fix their software. :eek:

All joking aside nothing will be corrupted. The time capsule functions ok with Windows as a router and a network attached drive.
Whackintosh
Mar 26, 2009, 04:58 AM
Cool, thanks.