Apple Time Capsule (500GB)

April 14th, 2008 | by Josh Norem

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Once again Apple has delivered another impressive product.


Highs: Great backup software for Macs; high-speed N WiFi; very quiet

Lows: No backup for PCs; setup issues; expensive

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Introduction

Apple’s Time Capsule combines a gigantic 1TB hard drive with a speedy wireless router that dishes out legacy B and G Wi-Fi along with the new N standard. It’s an overall solid package that delivers on its promise of easy-to-use centralized storage for a home network, and its wireless performance is very good as well. The only drawbacks are that the much-touted Time Machine feature only works with OS X Leopard, setup isn’t as easy as we anticipated from an Apple product, and naturally it’s a bit expensive.

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