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April 2008
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The editors liked
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...
Great idea
Neat and tidy backup solution
Large hard drive
Easy to use
No maintenance required once you’ve set it up
Easy to set up. Speedy Wi-Fi router. Back-ups without thinking about it. Terabyte capacity ...
Easy to configure (especially on Macs)
Share additional disks over USB
Share a printer
Automatic
Transparent
Wireless backup
Versioned
Incremental
Share printers and disks to Macs and PCs
Clean design
Good deal for DraftN router and 500GB or 1TB of storage
Low maintenance data backup for Mac users
Extensibility via USB port
Easy to install
Easy to manage
Backups without you having to think about it
The editors didn't like
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...
Hourly backups are too often
Wireless bakup is time-consuming
Gigabit Ethernet file transfer is markedly slow
Backup software Mac-only. No remote access or UPnP. Runs hot...
No browser-based admin tool
No way to check disk integrity
Slow initial backup
No convenient way to secure backups
Only average networking performance
Few advanced storage features beyond backup capabilities
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...
If youre uncertain about whether to get an AirPort Extreme, or a Time Capsule, look at it this way. An AirPort Extreme base station costs £119. The entry-level Time Capsule gives you all of the features of the base station and 500GB of built-in stora...
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Published: 2008-03-31, Author: Mark , review by: macworld.co.uk
Great idea, neat and tidy backup solution, large hard drive, easy to use, no maintenance required once you’ve set it up
Hourly backups are too often, wireless bakup is time-consuming, Gigabit Ethernet file transfer is markedly slow
Time Capsule seems ideally suited for a home network that hasn’t yet upgraded to an 802.11n wireless network (and, thus, doesn’t yet have a new AirPort Extreme Base Station). Time Capsule is a big improvement for such networks, although the £1...
At first glance, Time Capsule meets the challenge of being easy to set up, and easy to start backing up computers on a local network. Glenn Fleishman, Macworld US ...
Abstract: Time Capsule takes the functions of an AirPort Extreme base station and adds an internal disk that allows Time Machine to back up over a network. Since it was announced in January, many have been eager to take advantage of wireless backups - a feature ...
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, and those only for Mac users
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...
