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Apple Announces Time Capsule

Trepex said:
Wow, I wish I shared your optimism! I hope you're right but I'm not willing to make the gamble right now.
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And there is nothing wrong with that. If you are more comfortable with a different solution, more power to you. :D

I just get a bit...annoyed...at the folks who seem to portray the opinion if it's not perfect for them, then it is crap and nobody would see any value in it. :(
 
pjrobertson said:
Once again, over ehre in the UK we're having to pay almost twice as much as the US.

UK Price: £199 ($393)
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To be fair - if you add 17.5% as all US prices are before tax it works out over $350 so £180 or so if you get lucky with the exchange rate

So £199 isn't too bad

Certainly easier to stomach than the diff between $1799 and £1199 for the Macbook Air!
 
CWallace said:
And there is nothing wrong with that. If you are more comfortable with a different solution, more power to you. :D

I just get a bit...annoyed...at the folks who seem to portray the opinion if it's not perfect for them, then it is crap and nobody would see any value in it. :(
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Hey if it works - even at $299 - I'll buy it. :)

I'm mainly a skeptic because this AEBS+USBdrive solution has been so horrid so far.
 
alshead said:
It's a pretty cool device, sure, but they've got millions of customers with laptops, tens of thousands who have Leopard installed, and most of whom wanted to use Time Machine- thousands of them with the Airport Extreme and an external drive. So, with all of those customers out there, why don't they fix the Airport Extreme so that a connected external drive will work with Time Machine? Like other readers, I have a fully-functioning AE with a 500GB HD, and a laptop. Seems like it's just a software update they could add to the AE to help us get the same functionality out of something we purchased with great hope of this feature not very long ago.
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When Apple dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone and there was uproar, and they gave everyone an AppleStore credit, I thought it was totally unnecessary. I mean, the iPhone did what it was supposed to do at the price people paid.

On the other hand, the AE + Airport Disk does not do what it's supposed to do, especially with Leopard, and I think it's disgraceful announcing a new product like Time Capsule without informing all of their existing customers what they're going to do about the messed up situation with Airport EXtreme. It's ridiculous enough that Time Machine isn't supported with Airport Disk, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Many people cannot use their external USB drives with the AE at all since upgrading to Leopard. STILL.
 
pjarvi said:
Wouldn't Time Machine just take over the whole drive though? That's my one concern. I don't need a 500GB Time Machine, but if it can be divided up into multiple partitions then it would be useful.
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Time Machine makes a top-level directory (folder), and then a subdirectory per each mac using it ie:

/Backups.backupdb/system_name1
/Backups.backupdb/system_name2
etc.

So it doesn't partition the drive, I would guess you would be able to add your own folders, ie /MyIHateAppleFolder, /WheresMyNewMacbookProAir, etc :D
 
bilbo--baggins said:
When Apple dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone and there was uproar, and they gave everyone an AppleStore credit, I thought it was totally unnecessary. I mean, the iPhone did what it was supposed to do at the price people paid.

On the other hand, the AE + Airport Disk does not do what it's supposed to do, especially with Leopard, and I think it's disgraceful announcing a new product like Time Capsule without informing all of their existing customers what they're going to do about the messed up situation with Airport EXtreme. It's ridiculous enough that Time Machine isn't supported with Airport Disk, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Many people cannot use their external USB drives with the AE at all since upgrading to Leopard. STILL.
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This quite sums up my feelings as well. Getting consistent performance from my AEBS configuration has been awful. In tiger I constantly got errors and had to plug the USB drive into my MBP, repair permissions or rename the volumes, then plug it back in and restart everything. In Leopard, I regularly get errors and have to relaunch Finder or else restart the AEBS. It sucks :(

If even the AEBS started working well with USB drives I would stomach the no-TimeMachine support.

I'm out for the day, good luck people!
 
i will buy this if I have total control of the the disk(partitioning, NAS, and even network OS boot)otherwise if its just for back up I'm out of the market and will just buy the AEBS with a 1 TB HDD......
 
This sucks

I bought a 2TB drive to hook up via usb to m new airport extreme before leopard came out strictly for time machine because i have a macbook - now all that is useless and i need another 300 dollar time capsule for half a terabyte or 500 for 1TB - this is horrible.
 
Le Big Mac said:
2) You can hook up an external HD to the USB port and get NAS functionality like on the AEBS.
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Oh, the one that doesn't work.

At least not for me. It shows up just fine, with correct sizes and all, but I can't create a darn single file on it and I can't see whatever is already there. It works just fine when I connect it directly to a computer though.
 
Feeling Ripped OFF!!

OK, so spent several months now waiting for a AEBS upgrade that makes the Airdisk feature work in Leopard. No real hope for Timedisk except hacking it.. and now this is Apples solution, buy our new device? If they don't upgrade AEBS to properly support Airdisk and Timemachine I'm going to be extremely pissed.
 
Can I use this as a server for my SB-3 music player? Load it it up with 1200 cds wav files and just use the Time capsule without having to use my Mac book? If so I'm all over it. Can you use multiple TM's one for data one for audio etc.. .




Dean
 
Trepex said:
This quite sums up my feelings as well. Getting consistent performance from my AEBS configuration has been awful. In tiger I constantly got errors and had to plug the USB drive into my MBP, repair permissions or rename the volumes, then plug it back in and restart everything. In Leopard, I regularly get errors and have to relaunch Finder or else restart the AEBS. It sucks :(

If even the AEBS started working well with USB drives I would stomach the no-TimeMachine support.
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Yep. I just stopped using the damn thing. Honestly, at this point even if they added Time Machine support to the AEBS(n), I still wouldn't use it. I deeply regret buying the damn thing -- it's actually the most unstable router I've ever used, to the point that the newest firmware (and some of the older versions) is completely unusable for me.
 
citi said:
It is obvious that this is the reason wireless hd backup never worked. They were coming out with time capsule from the very beginning.
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$20 iPod Touch update.
No video card upgrade path for last gen Mac Pros.
Time Machine crippled to sell a new device.

What the heck is wrong with Apple?
 
Rantipole said:
You did that just three weeks before a Macworld????

No sympathy for you.
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What? I had a hard drive already, so I bought Leopard and a Airport Extreme for when they announced it fixed. It was in there once why the hell would I think they would come out with something like this to screw us? Never thought it would happen. Thats why I bought it.
 
what!

I am no mac expert here. (R U?) but i recently (i month ago) bought the 179$ xtreme router cuz i was sick of all the other brands not working the way they should. Worked like a charm. I planned on using the USB port in the back to hook up the gobs of external drives (6) i have via one usb dongle device. Then i would find out how (not there yet) to access itunes with the PC laptop (i know, i know). NOW i read not only of a device that mightve been helpful a month ago, but that all you people are having trouble hooking up external drives to the device and accessing that drive via leopard!? Someone give me some good news and tips! meanwhile, i sure wish money grew on trees....or maybe i could start selling dope again. i dont know.
 
Can the drive attached to the USB port be used for Time Machine too? If I can, I'm getting one of those and hooking up all my externals to it. It says in the specs you can attach a Drive to it. But so does the AEBS, and that doesn't seem to work at all. :-(
 
superspud said:
ok, so in attempts to read all of the technical mumbo jumbo i just got confused....


is this a wireless hard drive i can store and access my files from all around the house wirelessly?

or is it just a device i can use with time machine?

do i have to use time machine or can i just use it as a wireless hard drive?


PLEEEEEEAAAASEEE help :)
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Look at Post# 59.... looks like it will work as a wireless HD.
Hope fully it can be used both as a Timemachine backup drive and as an external HDD, should let us partition it.
 
Very Pissed!

Norwester said:
OK, so spent several months now waiting for a AEBS upgrade that makes the Airdisk feature work in Leopard. No real hope for Timedisk except hacking it.. and now this is Apples solution, buy our new device? If they don't upgrade AEBS to properly support Airdisk and Timemachine I'm going to be extremely pissed.
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You are not on your own. I bought an AEBS,Leopard and a 500gb HDD for time machine.

Having just posted on the official Apple discussions i find they have removed my post immeadiately. Apple seem to have really shafted us and by speed of post removals they are very aware and actively hiding it.
 
Thats a complete RIP_OFF!! I mean how cheap can they get. I have AEBS (2 of them) and external hard drives. Not onlt TM doesn't work with them but even regular airdisk thing NEVER work :mad: And instead of fixing they are trying to sell new product?????
Im pissed as hell!!!!!!!!
 
For once I made the right call...

I opted to skip out on the student price and bought the AEBS at Best Buy. Luckily, I bought it during the time that it qualifies for extended return policy (bought Nov 1 and can return through Jan 31). Now Time Capsule comes out and I'm not screwed over had I bought it at an Apple Store.

So looking forward to this since all we have are laptops in the house.
 
I'm not in the same boat as many here. I wanted to wait for today to see if any updates were being made to the MB. Now that there are none, I'm going to go ahead and buy one.

I have a Netgear NAS with 2 slots (1 for my Windows machine, was going to use the 2nd as a backup for my new MB) with a DLink router that backs up my data wirelessly. Any chance of getting TM to work with this configuration?

I'd rather not spend $300 on TC when I have a perfectly working backup solution already.
 
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