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Apple Testing New Time Capsules for Caching Software Updates?

eldaria said:
Honestly this should be possible to do with just a firmware update not a new device, especially for the Time Capsules that already have a harddrive.
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possibly, if there is sufficient RAM, etc. to support the more complicated OS required. But it's possible there will be a firmware update for the old time capsules/airports as well. The hardware may be updated for other reasons (cost, manufacturability, reliability, power consumption, performance, etc.) - you didn't expect Apple to keep selling the same device forever?
 
Never Works

I use a Mac Server 10.5 Leopard for my Small Office. We all use Macs with the exception of our Accounting PC (Win). We use the Mac Server to handle our Jabber, Mail, Apache, iCal, and what was supposed to be Automated Updates. That is, in Theory the Mac Server Should download the Updates and pass it on to the group so that each individual Mac doesn't eat up too much Bandwidth. Also I have set up my Macs to work with Open Directory and Ldap. I've done everything short of Netboot, which if I did that it shouldn't be something they should brag about on their site.

Never worked. And I frankly don't expect the Airport to do it either. In terms of Technology it doesn't seem to be something that is very hard to accomplish, but with all the updates Apple never reallied seemed to find a solution for it.

FYI, other things that don't seem to work are the Mobility and Mail Spam Filters. But thats for another post. :). Apart from all my cribbing, I love Apple. Less Headaches.
 
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