| Apple announces Time Capsule |
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Simply plug it in, then easily set up automatic wireless backup for every Mac in your house to a single Time Capsule with just a few clicks. Time Capsule offers the benefits of a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station, and comes in two models: a 500 gigabyte model for just NZ$498 inc GST and a 1 terabyte model for just NZ$799 inc GST RRP. "Bring Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs and voila—all the Macs in your house are being backed up automatically, every hour of every day," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With Time Capsule and Time Machine, all your irreplaceable photos, movies and documents are automatically protected and incredibly easy to retrieve if they are ever lost."
Built to work seamlessly with Time Machine, Time Capsule lets users wirelessly back up all of the data on their Macs, find lost files and even restore all of their software. In the event a file is lost, users can wirelessly search back through time to find deleted files, applications, photos and other digital media and then instantly restore the file. If it's ever necessary, Leopard can also easily restore an entire system from the Time Machine backup on Time Capsule. In addition to being the best way to back up a Mac, Time Capsule is also a full-featured Wi-Fi base station with the latest 802.11n technology. Delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g, 802.11n* is built in to Apple's iMac desktop and the entire Mac notebook line up, including MacBook, MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air. Time Capsule features a sleek design with a built-in power supply and connections to print wirelessly to a USB printer. With Time Capsule, it's very easy for users to create a secure, wireless network for up to 50 users and set security restrictions such as Internet access limits for children's computers.
At RRP NZ$489 inc GST for a 500GB model and RRP NZ$799 inc GST for a 1TB model and a fully integrated 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station, Time Capsule can serve as a backup solution for multiple computers as well as the backbone for a high-speed, 802.11n wireless network, making it effortless and affordable for everyone at home, school or work to protect their digital files. Additional Time Capsule features include:
Pricing & Availability *Time Capsule is based on an IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Actual performance will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, size of network and other factors.
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Philip Roy
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Apple today introduced Time Capsule, a backup appliance that automatically and wirelessly backs up everything on one or more Macs running Leopard, the latest release of Apple's Mac OS X operating system including the amazing Time Machine automatic backup software. Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package.
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Absolutely superb product! This will be very useful to a lot of people. Even with an iMac, I didn't want the hassle of having an HD attached. Now if only they could combine an Airport Extreme, Time Capsule/Machine and Apple TV into one unit....it'd sit next to the TV but be quietly backing up your Mac for you at the same time !!  |
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lowededwookie
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Holy cow, $799(NZ - from Apple Store) for 1TB version. Get what I'm saving up for?  |
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commandercool
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it would be good if there was also a firewire option, as i am not sure if i want to do time machine backups over my wireless network. it would be slow!! |
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lowededwookie
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Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a wireless router? |
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commandercool
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yep, but for me i would rather have firewire connectivity. Just a personal preference thing I guess. |
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Philip Roy
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It's got ethernet and USB...you could use either of those.... http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/specs.html |
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irncpl
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Sounds a great idea to me. I like the idea of reducing clutter. Currently we have separate hard drives attached to each mac for backups. I like the idea of 1 wireless option. More than happy for it to work automatically in the background as speed then becomes less of an issue. |
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lowededwookie
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One thing to note too is that TimeMachine only does incremental backups (except for initially) which means it only backs up stuff that has changed so you're not really pushing a lot of data across the wireless. |
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Philip Roy
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Yes..but that would be an entire iDVD project if you made just one change...or your entire Entourage email database (1GB for me at work) if I receive a single email....this is more an issue with those apps than TM. Hoping Office 2008 solves that for Entourage. This issue has been commented elsewhere on the net already |
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lowededwookie
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Not sure how that works but it may still only backup what has changed. Don't forget that these documents are actually folders with files in them so it is still possible to only backup the bits that have changed without having to copy across the whole project. If you have N wireless cards you're transmitting at speeds roughly equivalent to a harddrive's write speed anyway so it might not be an issue. |
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Philip Roy
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Entourage 2004 uses one file...one database to store all your archive....so the moment you add or get an email, it would have to figure out what in that ONE file has chnaged..and it can't...so it backs up the entire thing. I'm hoping Office 2008 changes this. I still prefer Entourage for email and am seriously considering getting a Time Capsule (feel like I should say that in a booming voice for some effect). Re Entourage... http://blog.entourage.mvps.org...chine.html http://blog.entourage.mvps.org...chine.html |
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Philip Roy
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Oh well....as pointed out by someone at Massey, Entourage 2008 still uses one database file to hold ALL email info.... http://apcmag.com/7842/office_...ge_support |
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celtickiwi
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Nice price, lets hope the wireless interface and the WAN interface is better than the airport, I've found the airport extreme to be a bit of a dog oaf a device, still I will probably buy one. |
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