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April 2008
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The editors liked
Small form
Fits neatly in an Apple showroom. Makes Time Machine even more convenient.
Convenient network storage and router
Easy to set up and use
Designed for Time Machine (but works with other backup systems
Too)
Supports multiple Macs
Works with PCs
Builtin AirPort base station with 802.11n wireless capabilities
Servergrade hard drive
Wireless-n at 2.4 or 5 GHz. Flawless operation with networked Time Machine backups
As well as with USB hard drive and printer sharing. Good price.
Very fast network drive
Excellent integration with Time Machine
Good router throughput and range
Easy to setup. Works flawlessly with Time Machine. Supports 802.11a/b/g/draft n standards. USB port sharing.
Clean design
Good deal for Draft-N router and 500GB or 1TB of storage
Low maintenance data backup for Mac users
Extensibility via USB port.
Great backup software for Macs
High-speed N WiFi
Very quiet
Very good wireless range
Easy to set up
1TB of storage
Operates on dual bands
Works seamlessly with Mac OS X 10.5
Particularly Time Machine backup application
Allows both internal and USB-connected drive Time Machine backups for Leopard users
Includes all AirPort Extreme features
Archive option for simplified off-site backups
Houses drive
Power supply in one tidy case.
The editors didn't like
Still pricey. Two great tastes
But do they taste great together? Feature-limited compared to competitors? NILLSlightModeratePalpableExtreme
No built-in ADSL modem
Hard drive is not easily user replaceable
Less expensive NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices are available
No external antenna options
Lacks home media-serving features. Printer sharing but no print server. No hardware redundancy. No easy upgrade path.
No remote access
No media streaming
Requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 for Time Machine functionality. Unable to upgrade the hard disk. Does not support media streaming.
Only average networking performance
Few advanced storage features beyond backup capabilities
And those only for Mac users.
No backup for PCs
Setup issues
Expensive
Lacks Web-based administration
No Windows backup software included
No media-server capabilities
Can’t swap internal drive
Time Machine’s hourly backups are too often for networked system.
Abstract: As you might expect, Steve Jobs kept Apple’s most impressive new piece of hardware for last: The MacBook Air. It’s a super slim, metallic notebook with a 13” screen, full size keyboard, LED based display, and optional solid state hard disk drive. Sound...
Abstract: What Apples Time Machine software does for backing up your Mac, the Time Capsule does for an entire home network. This slim square slab contains a hard disk, which any Mac running the latest Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system can use for creating...
Clean design, Good deal for DraftN router and 500GB or 1TB of storage, Low maintenance data backup for Mac users, Extensibility via USB port
Only average networking performance, Few advanced storage features beyond backup capabilities
Apples hybrid 802.11n wireless router/networked hard drive offers some powerful data backup features for Mac owners, as well as Apples typical pleasing design. Windows users and anyone who demands speed from their 802.11n network will be disappointed.
Clean design, Good deal for DraftN router and 500GB or 1TB of storage, Low maintenance data backup for Mac users, Extensibility via USB port
Only average networking performance, Few advanced storage features beyond backup capabilities
Apples hybrid 802.11n wireless router/networked hard drive offers some powerful data backup features for Mac owners, as well as Apples typical pleasing design. Windows users and anyone who demands speed from their 802.11n network will be disappointe...
Abstract: Wireless base station and backupPlug it in, use an assistant to walk you through configuration, connect to the device or connect it to an existing network, and select its internal hard drive as the Time Machine destination for your networked Macs.In my fi...
This little beauty from Apple is the perfect way to protect your Mac against fire, flood and acts of God. Why? Well it’s an all-in-one router with a wireless hard drive. In the flesh we found that it shovelled data from your Mac speedier than Lewis...
Unfortunately, the Time Capsule only works with Mac computers, so if you're a dedicated Windows devotee there's not really much here for you to get excited about. Also, for best performance it can't be too far from your machine despite its N-s...
The Time Capsule is the best thing we’ve seen the world of backup for ages, making networking shared devices hassle free. It's pretty pricey though, and only works with Apple products.Apple Time Capsule is tagged with Apple, Wi-Fi, router and ha...
Abstract: Apples Time Capsule is marketed as a network backup device for Mac users, but it can also be used with Windows computers as a file server like any other network-attached storage (NAS) device. It also has a built-in gigabit Ethernet and Draft-N wire...
Easy to configure (especially on Macs); share additional disks over USB; share a printer
No browser-based admin tool; no way to check disk integrity
The Time Capsule offers a reasonably-priced opportunity to adopt a basic backup regime, particularly for laptops users that refuse to be tied down – even at the risk of losing files. ...
Automatic, transparent, wireless backup, Easy to use, Versioned, incremental, Share printers and disks to Macs and PCs
Slow initial backup, No convenient way to secure backups
Were going to say this up front: buy one of these now. We dont care if youve never backed up a byte of data, or already have an existing backup regime; Time Capsules transparent, zero-intervention, newbie-friendly system is the best we have ever us...
