Image of 2 TB Time Capsule Box?

[MasterNile]

That's where I am confused. If the MSRP on a 2TB hard drive is $300, which is what you stated. I assume that you stated the consumer retail price that you could purchase a drive for.

Why would Apple pay that price? They'd buy them by the 10 000 or 100 000s and would probably pay half (or less) than you would as an endpoint-consumer.

Doesn't that not really matter at all either way, a 1TB HDD MSRP is $100 and the 1TB Time Capsule still goes for $500, so if the 2TB MSRP is $300 (that's the price for the OEM from newegg.com) wouldn't Apple still want to maintain their profit margins like they always do and still sell the 2TB for $700?

EDIT: but even if Apple pays let's say half the price for buying in bulk that means they pay $50 for a 1TB HDD and add $450 for other parts and profit, so if they pay $150 for a 2TB HDD add $450 for other parts and profit and you still come to $600 for a single 2TB back up solution, for that price I could get 2 2TB hard drives (or even 6 1TB HDDs) and have redundancy

 

[scottness]

You're nuts unless you mean RAID 1, in which case the price goes up even more.

Common sense... you know what I meant. --And I'd pay for it.

 

[Lancelot9201]

Gee's People Do You Not Know What HDD's Retail For.??

Man Apple, talk about price gouging.. I just saw a 1.5 TB drive at compusa in an external enclosure for only $130.00 -- but you want $500 for Time Capule.
Anyone who would accept this kind of pricing & waste their money is a fool. I seldom insult anyone else's purchasing decisions but I couldn't help myself this time. People, I love Apple stuff too but their are other alternatives to just blindly giving Apple your hard earned money & not receiving all you could..

 

[scottness]

Man Apple, talk about price gouging.. I just saw a 1.5 TB drive at compusa in an external enclosure for only $130.00 -- but you want $500 for Time Capule.
Anyone who would accept this kind of pricing & waste their money is a fool. I seldom insult anyone else's purchasing decisions but I couldn't help myself this time. People, I love Apple stuff too but their are other alternatives to just blindly giving Apple your hard earned money & not receiving all you could..

While Time Capsule is definitely over-priced, it is more than just an external drive.

•Multiple computer backups
•Print Server
•Port for additional hard drives
•Wireless N router
•Network File Sharing

Does the "CompUSA" external drive do half of that? CompUSA closed for business months ago. I applaud your persistence on not insulting people here. Let's continue not insulting others.

 

[iJesus]

I just checked that Apple 1 billionth App download prize page and it says that the total retail prize of the package is $13,746 for:

"(1) winner will receive one (1) 17” MacBook Pro; one (1) iPod Touch 32GB; one (1) $10,000 iTunes Gift Certificate; and an Apple Time Capsule"

Now,
+17" MacBook Pro = $2,799
+iTunes Prize = $10,000
+32GB iPod Touch = $399

= 13,198
+1TB Time Capsule brings the sum to $13,697

That's a difference of $49 Dollars between what Apple says the prize is worth and what it actually is. And since they fail to mention which model Time Capsule they're giving away it may have something to do with a prize change in which they may give away a 2TB Time Capsule to the winner.

I'm probably wrong on all of this but it's always fun to do a little rumor math.

 

[t0mat0]

Any new information on an update? Or is it a yearly thing, near March time for Time Capsule updates?