Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Time Capsul lame
Time Capsul lame
by coynedog - 1/15/08 9:31 AMMan, barring new information the Time Capsul announcement is lame.
I purchased an Airport Extreme and a multi-terrabyte external hard drive in preparation for Leopard with the intent of Time Machine'ing all of my Macs via airport (as previously promised by Steve), only to find out that the feature was removed by the time Leopard was released! Arg!
Now they want me to pay another $300-500 for a feature they promised but did not deliver in a previous product! Double-argh!
Michael (the sea turtle guy)
http://www.seaturtle.org/
(NT) It's Microsoft Home Server, minus a bunch of cool features.
by Akyan - 1/15/08 9:54 AM In reply to: Time Capsul lame by coynedogHappened to me too
by SilasC - 1/15/08 10:37 AM In reply to: Time Capsul lame by coynedogI would be surprised to see a lawsuit or two. They mentioned the AirPort Extreme would have the capability to back up using Time Machine via a USB External harddrive. Then a week before Leopard launches, they remove that feature. Then they go and release a new product that does what they promised they would do in the first place.
I'm sure there are going to me a lot of upset AirPort Extreme owners who bought it right before the Leopard launch. They better give us something. This is just plain unacceptable and possible false advertising.
Class Action time?
by coynedog - 1/15/08 1:07 PM In reply to: Time Capsul lame by coynedogThere's class action lawsuit talk all over the Apple Discussion site on this issue. At the very least this will create bad press for Apple if they don't get on it quick.
Not lame.
by skellener - 1/16/08 8:32 AM In reply to: Class Action time? by coynedogIt's not the device that's lame, it's the fact that you can't get functionality out of the previous set up. I agreee. if they advertised it to work with Time Machine then went back on that, there should be some sort of settlement. At least a trade in program.
I actually think that the device is very cool and will definitely consider getting one. Does Microsoft Home Server work with the Mac? This does! That's the best feature. As far as price, I think it's actually pretty decent. People scoff at $500 for a 1TB drive, but it's a server grade drive. That $249 1TB drive you bought last weekend on sale will probably die in about 2 years. This one should last quite a bit longer. The regular base station is $179. So there's really only about a $72 discrepancy if you pieced this set up together yourself. Not too bad for something that "just works". Well, we'll see if it does or not.
Couldn't agree more
by ikcizokm - 1/16/08 7:12 PM In reply to: Time Capsul lame by coynedogI'm infuriated over this. I bought an Airport Extreme and a 500gb external MyBook drive last year with the specific intent of using it as a wireless storage/back-up device thanks to Apple's claims that it would be compatible with Leopard and Time Machine.
Not only did Apple YANK this feature out of Leopard at the last minute, but the Airport Extreme 7.2.1 firmware has a terrible FLAW that randomly disconnects the USB hard drive for no discernible reason, requiring you to reboot the Airport to re-connect. (This has been aggravating considering I keep my iTunes library on that drive.) There are literally hundreds of posts on the Apple support forums about this issue over the last several months. Apple's response? ::crickets::
Then to have them release this product is just an insult.
Do I think this is a great product? It probably is (if it works). It's also aggressively priced, considering I paid $80 more for my Airport + MyBook combined. But for the thousands of us who SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS FEATURE, it's a slap in the face from Apple.
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