Time Capsule

Bryan · 01-15-2008, 08:42 PM

http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/

another cool introduction at MacWorld. Kinda expensive though, but oh so tempting. I'm getting deeper into the dark side.

ApparentlyNothing · 01-15-2008, 08:54 PM

Yeah, but $500 for a terabyte hard drive, an awesome router, and the ability for anyone on the network to access it wirelessly? Pretty sweet to me, and not too expensive at all.

**Wesley7777** · 01-15-2008, 09:38 PM

Yeah, it not that bad of a price really. I would really liked to grab one of these bu i just bought a harddrive

Giga Hertz · 01-15-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ApparentlyNothing

Yeah, but $500 for a terabyte hard drive, an awesome router, and the ability for anyone on the network to access it wirelessly? Pretty sweet to me, and not too expensive at all.

Anyone on the network accessing it wirelessly doesn't sound too promising if it's an idiot setting it up.

ApparentlyNothing · 01-16-2008, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Giga Hertz

Anyone on the network accessing it wirelessly doesn't sound too promising if it's an idiot setting it up.

Umm... I'm not sure what you're getting at. Any idiot can set up an Apple Airport base station to require a password. Seriously. Apple technology is almost always idiot proof.

Andrew · 01-16-2008, 12:33 PM

This was the only non-idiotic thing announced at macworld this year. This is a great thing! An excellent price and a good product. Especially for being something from Apple.

If I were an apple guy I would have no problem buying it. At all.

ApparentlyNothing · 01-16-2008, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew

This was the only non-idiotic thing announced at macworld this year. This is a great thing! An excellent price and a good product. Especially for being something from Apple.

If I were an apple guy I would have no problem buying it. At all.

It works for Macs and PCs.

Bryan · 01-16-2008, 01:06 PM

looking at the price of other NAS devices, it is definitely a good deal, add to it that not only is it a NAS device, it also is a wireless router

Andrew · 01-16-2008, 01:07 PM

I didn't say if I only used apples. I said if I were an Apple guy. As it stands right now I could put 2 terabytes into a PC with a cheap processor and I would put linux on it as a fileserver. I meant that I am not an apple guy.

ApparentlyNothing · 01-17-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew

I didn't say if I only used apples. I said if I were an Apple guy. As it stands right now I could put 2 terabytes into a PC with a cheap processor and I would put linux on it as a fileserver. I meant that I am not an apple guy.

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but can a PC be a router?

I don't see why you have to be an "apple guy" to buy an Apple product you yourself stated was a good. Your option just seems excessive in every aspect... in size, cost, setup. I guess if you enjoy spending that much time doing that sort of thing....

But I guess that's why I'm an "apple guy"

Andrew · 01-17-2008, 02:21 PM

Oh. What I just mentioned would cost me about 500ish (200+ for 2 terabytes as opposed to 1) in money, and then about 20 minutes of setup time.

FWBuilder and a scripted install of linux are your friend.

Giga Hertz · 01-17-2008, 02:32 PM

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This was the only non-idiotic thing announced at macworld this year.

I suppose compared to charging people for an iPhone upgrade... :P

ApparentlyNothing · 01-17-2008, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew

Oh. What I just mentioned would cost me about 500ish (200+ for 2 terabytes as opposed to 1) in money, and then about 20 minutes of setup time.

FWBuilder and a scripted install of linux are your friend.

Newegg had 1 TB drives at almost $300 a piece. Two of them already puts you over the $500 Time Capsule.

Bryan · 01-17-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Giga Hertz

I suppose compared to charging people for an iPhone upgrade... :P

the iPhone upgrade was free. the iPod Touch software pack is $20. and yes it was idiotic. Got some boos from what I heard.

Andrew · 01-17-2008, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ApparentlyNothing

Newegg had 1 TB drives at almost $300 a piece. Two of them already puts you over the $500 Time Capsule.

I would never buy a 1TB drive. Dual 500GB is where it's at, for speed and reliability. 230ish shipped for 1TB that way. That's why I said 200+ for an extra TB. Don't argue with me on this, I have a ton of experience in the area of local intranet and wide intranet routing and file storage. Have you ever built a mail server? A linux router? Do you know how to configure RAID 5? Do you run multiple networks on a switch?

I really, really know what I am doing here, and what I have said is true. Now, I am about to start getting argumentative here, so i will let you have the last word and bow out. I apologize if I got to heated about this. To each his own, I guess.