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Apple Quietly Updates Time Capsule (2TB and 3TB) and AirPort Extreme
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Yes/No.
I think it may be a hardware upgrade that gives it extra capacity for future software upgrades.
It has to have been updated.
- There are currently "no reviews" of the AEBS. Means it's a new model with no reviews yet.
- The price has dropped in the education store.
- FCC filing.
Something has changed internally. Someone suggested six antennae rather than three. Maybe that's it, or maybe there's more.
I thought the AEBS used to be $199 in Canada ($179 w/ education pricing). So is this a price drop? Or am I just misremembering?
I'm really very curious to know this....A new one of these Airport or Time Capsules coupled with one of the new MBPs or iMacs with triple antenna Wifi should make for some really blazing fast intra-network speeds, and would be worth the upgrade for me.
iFixit Teardown
I'll wait to see what iFixit finds out. I'm thinking that we'll find a small 16G "SSD" in the Express, and an A4/A5 in all of them (better to load code to for local caching of software updates for iPad/Pod/Mac, etc.). My 2 cents, that's all. We'll see when it starts shipping, but I wouldn't release it with a lot of fanfare if the code (and iCloud) aren't fully baked as yet. May as well be a pleasant surprise when the big announcement comes out.
I'll wait to see what iFixit finds out. I'm thinking that we'll find a small 16G "SSD" in the Express, and an A4/A5 in all of them (better to load code to for local caching of software updates for iPad/Pod/Mac, etc.). My 2 cents, that's all. We'll see when it starts shipping, but I wouldn't release it with a lot of fanfare if the code (and iCloud) aren't fully baked as yet. May as well be a pleasant surprise when the big announcement comes out.
The part numbers have changed when you add the Airport Extreme to your basket.
The new part number is the one that was reported earlier today "MD031LL/A" and I believe it was was MC340LL/A
Strange that no details of the update have been put on the UK store/ wifi page
My point was that it might be a silent update with no visible changes until a future software update, perhaps related to iCloud or some Lion update to Time Machine.
I agree, the fact you can set up a new airport device in iOS5 a new Aiport Utility and now a new device, will be interesting to see whats inside and if anything new shows up in beta2
Price for AEBS did indeed drop from $199 Cdn to $179 Cdn, making it same price as US inline with strong Cdn dollar.
Canadian educational price drop reflected that as well.
Theres nothing new as far as we know. We have to wait for iFixit to confirm whats new.
This has been a strange silent update from Apple. I havent seen such as vague update like this from Apple in a long time.
WE? Are you a siamese twin or something?
How did you get from it not being difficult for me to hook up an external drive and not wanting/needing TM to run every hour to me not valuing data?
Then being preachy on top of it. YOu can replace hardware not data. Blah Blah blah. I'm the choir bud.
Someone posted some specs on the new Airport Extreme from the FCC filings on the Apple Discussion forum: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15454924. It looks like radio power output has slightly increased, likely as a result of additional antennae.
I just spoke with the Live Chat people on the Apple website and the only thing that changed with the AEBS is the part number. Thats all she said.
Agreed No Audio is a big disappointment
TimeCapsule and Extreme base station would be nearly ideal entertainment center routers if they had audio out.
I wish someone would develop a hack for this as Apple does not seem interested in adding the $5.00 subsystem to make it happen.
TimeCapsule and Extreme base station would be nearly ideal entertainment center routers if they had audio out.
I wish someone would develop a hack for this as Apple does not seem interested in adding the $5.00 subsystem to make it happen.
I have a pending order coming Thursday - including my iMac, ACD 27 and a TimeCapsule 2 TB.
I paid the same price as the current 3 Tb cost. I want the 3 TB version of course - hope Apple will return it with no hazzle and give me the new larger version. I need it for my Sonos system and 1.2 TB apple lossless music archive (Sonos can't read the files hidden in the TimeMachine backups)......
I paid the same price as the current 3 Tb cost. I want the 3 TB version of course - hope Apple will return it with no hazzle and give me the new larger version. I need it for my Sonos system and 1.2 TB apple lossless music archive (Sonos can't read the files hidden in the TimeMachine backups)......
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That doesn't make sense. Something had to change. I guess we will find out soon enough
Do you guys think this was a supply chain timing error?
I wonder if Apple was assuming the old TC and AEBS's would last until July so they could release the new ones with Lion and tout some new auto-update features and/or A4/A5 processor? Instead, they're left bone dry out of the older models and the decided rather than be out of TC's and AEBS's all together for at least a month, they just quietly rolled them out.
It just seems very odd that they'd release new part numbers with no discernable difference.
I wonder if Apple was assuming the old TC and AEBS's would last until July so they could release the new ones with Lion and tout some new auto-update features and/or A4/A5 processor? Instead, they're left bone dry out of the older models and the decided rather than be out of TC's and AEBS's all together for at least a month, they just quietly rolled them out.
It just seems very odd that they'd release new part numbers with no discernable difference.
It could be just a case of new firmware allowing it work better with newer features yet to be announced. The fact that these devices can be now set up without a computer, using a device on iOS5 means that other things could well be hidden.