Macworld 2008: Apple’s Time Capsule January 16, 2008
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One of the more innovative announcements at Macworld 2008 was Apple’s Time Capsule, a combination of an external back-up hard disk drive and a Wi-Fi base station.
The Time Capsule allows anyone running the latest Mac operating system, Leopard, to wirelessly back-up all of their Macs onto either a 500GB or 1TB device. According to Apple, you plug it in and using the Time Machine software it’s easy to set-up automatic wireless back-ups for all the Macs in your home.
“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”.
The Time Capsule is also a full-featured Wi-Fi base station using 802.11n technology. The key features are:
* dual-band antennae for 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies;
* three Gigabit LAN ports;
* one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port;
* one USB 2.0 port;
* Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2), 128-bit WEP encryption; and
* a built-in NAT firewall supporting NAT-PMP for features like Back to My Mac.
The 500GB model and the 1TB model are priced at £199 and £329, respectively, and will ship next month.-Martin Lynch
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amazing kit. fabulous idea. but is anyone getting sick of the currency abuse going on here? the US dollar price in the states is $299 & $399. c'mon.
Quite interesting