Sure, the new MacBook Air laptop is all the buzz this week — “thinspiration” straight from Apple — but we’re kind of excited about this new release, too.
Anyone with a wealth of information on their computer certainly feels the pain of regularly backing things up; might as well scratch an afternoon off your calendar to spend time sorting through files, dragging and dropping, and weeding out needless junk. Apple wants to take some of the stress out of data storage with their new Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive with a 802.11n Wi-Fi base station that works seamlessly with the Time Machine utility in Mac OS X Leopard to automatically back up your computer.
Available in 1TB and 500GB models (that’s at least a couple of years worth of data, right?), you can back up all of the computers in your home cable-free, connect the Time Capsule to your DSL or cable modem to create a new wireless network, use it as a wireless drive on both your Mac and PC, attach a printer via USB for wireless printing from any computer anywhere in your home, plus connect/transfer easily from your iPhone, Apple TV, iPod Touch and all of your other fun Wi-Fi goodies. Neat!
The 500GB and 1TB models are available directly from Apple for $299 and $499 (won’t ship til February, but that’s only a couple of weeks off, and it sounds like this one is worth the wait).
