I'll believe it's new when i can go into the store, click on wireless & airport and see the new Airport Extreme for sale in there.
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Apple Quietly Updates Time Capsule (2TB and 3TB) and AirPort Extreme
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I'll believe it's new when i can go into the store, click on wireless & airport and see the new Airport Extreme for sale in there.
Can anyone confirm the price drop for Airport Extreme in the education store?
From $179 to $159 in the Canadian education store. Is this just a Canada thing?
From $179 to $159 in the Canadian education store. Is this just a Canada thing?
No Thunderbolt?
I would think it would have Thunderbolt - would be a good feature when transferring, retrieving backups, daisy chaining more peripherals (HD,printers) :/ faster than wifi, ethernet, usb 2.0
I would think it would have Thunderbolt - would be a good feature when transferring, retrieving backups, daisy chaining more peripherals (HD,printers) :/ faster than wifi, ethernet, usb 2.0
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3 TB is not good enough for simple backup. I have more storage than that on my primary computer. I also find it somewhat offensive that anyone would consider a backup system that did not use mirrored drives.
Understand, Apple does not need to come out with complex cycle eating performance trashing software. A simple spanned drive (JBOD) that once a day copies all it's data over to a mirrored set would be fine. This would also greatly increase the life of the mirrored drives as they would only need to be powered up once a day.
The development cost would be near zero (by Apple standards) and the benefits and coolness factor would be through the roof. (I like that word ROOF!)
Will they offer the 1tb option for a much cheaper price while stocks are still around?
Also i heard the xbox 360 has problems with the time capsule, can any one confirm or deny with out going into a ps3 vs xbox war?
Also i heard the xbox 360 has problems with the time capsule, can any one confirm or deny with out going into a ps3 vs xbox war?
The integrated power supply must be new because the Extreme I got last week did not have it.
Edit: Ah, I see, the integrated supply is for the Time Capsule.
I'm glad my 82-year old grandmother offends you by using a TC
. It's easy to forget that generally speaking, we are not Apple's core demographic; rather, my grandma (and folks like her) are. If I tried to explain RAID, JBOD, etc. to her, there's no way she'd ever back up her data. The Time Capsule is an excellent solution for non-power users who just want to set-it-and-forget-it.
Time Machine backups are only slow the first time. The incremental backups are quite fast, even when done over wireless.
We understand you don't value your data that much. Many of us value our data more than our hardware. Hardware can be replaced. Lost data can not.
The Time Capsule uses a figure-8 power cord straight into the back, the pictures in the Store still allude to the Extreme requiring an external brick.
Also, under Airport Extreme it says, "Be the first to review this product." There are currently no reviews of the Airport Extreme? Must be a newly revised version then.
I just called up apple Sales and the guy said he just read an internal memo and it was exactly the same just upped storage.
Would take a brick over integral any day... the PSU in my TC has dies and unless I want to take it to bits (not as easy as it sounds) it's now useless. At least I would have a fighting chance if all I needed was a compatible power supply to plug in the back.
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And you've done this? Can I
Use the TC for both time machine
And ad a wireless spot for iTunes? Also is it able to served hd content across the network to an atv2 without issue?
If so I might do it
lhotka said:
And you've done this? Can I
Use the TC for both time machine
And ad a wireless spot for iTunes? Also is it able to served hd content across the network to an atv2 without issue?
If so I might do it
Perhaps, though they could trim the edges with exterior antennas.
Anyways...they could have easily matched the design of the new ATV. Im not advocating smaller footprints, keep the same form factor, improve cooling, make the HDD more user accessible, and give it that sexy ATV matte black.
And start it at 199.99 for 2TB.
I'm glad my 82-year old grandmother offends you by using a TC
Dude, when, many years ago, I got my grandmother her first computer and put her on the internet, my grandmother hacked into my main server using an SQL injection attack, then SSHd in and created herself an email account. The next time I came over to visit, I got a very stern lecture about slashing out special characters and tokenising all SQL commands. All these decades later, that remains very good advice.
PS. I think it is time for your grandmother to think about a software upgrade.
Still doesn't explain the new FCC filings does it? Or do they need to do those for every change, even just a HD upgrade?
If you put one more drive in the box you need a larger box. Apple is all about smaller, thinner, and lighter these days so they won't do that.
Sometimes design trumps functionality with regards to Apple.
An increase in capacity for the same price is better than a price cut for the same capacity. I would call this a win, but not an epic win.
Just about all Apple products always say "new"
http://www.apple.com/macpro/
How "new" is that Mac Pro, anyway?
Anyway, glad they kept the white!
Someone quoted a rumour saying it has 6 internal aerials instead of 3 in the last model. No clarification of this on the Apple website (apart from a "new" badge next to Performance).
A teardown will be required to clarify.