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Apple unearths Time Capsule

by Parm Mann on 29 February 2008, 10:00

Tags: Time Capsule, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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Austin Modine of The Register reports:

The device was announced at Macworld last January, and is currently the only really practical way to use Mac OS X Leopard's backup program Time Machine without physically plugging a hard disk into the computer.

Apple Time Capsule

A wireless backup option for Time Machine had in fact been an advertised feature leading up to the OS X Leopard release. But all references to the option were mysteriously pulled from Apple's product literature last October.

Time Capsule is essentially composed of an Apple Airport Extreme Basestation Wi-Fi router with a "server grade" hard drive attached. The box has dual-band 802.11n antennas for 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies, three Gigabit LAN ports, one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port, and a USB 2.0 port.

The device retails for $300 for a 500GB drive and $499 for a 1TB drive.

By our extremely rough calculations — that's a $43 markup compared to an Airport Extreme, a 1TB drive, and a roll of duct tape. But perhaps we're missing the point.



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Well if I calculate right, $43 dollars roughly translates to £21.69. So to have it look like the drive was ment to be there and what could be described as “Apple styling” it's not much of a premiumto pay like some other products. I'd gladly pay it :)
Although with most things the exchange rate seems to get reversed, so we'll probably be charged an extra £80.