The Time Capsules have gone on sale! Get yours now on sale (Apple products are NEVER on sale)! The 500GB model is $254.99 saving you $45 and the 1TB is only $424.99 saving you $75!

Apple Time Capsule 500GB

Apple Time Capsule 1TB

Think Mark

Colonel

How does that contribute?! your disturbed because some Apple products are on sale?!

Think Mark

ZOMG

Maybe he is confused that the're on sale....
Either that o he just bought one and now they are on sale..

the sale is over for the 500 gb one...

That's still way too much money to spend for PAINFULLY slow backups.

Do you know fro personal experience? Granted that the first backup is rumored to be fairly slow, but it is fine after tat.
My TC is great, wouldn't trade it for anything. You can also change the HDD if you want to, just crack open the back

Think Mark

Do I have first hand experience? No. But by comparing the specs of 802.11n vs. eSATA I don't really think I need to. You can pick up 500GB eSATA drives for $130ish which will work wonderfully with Time Machine, AND be faster than a Time Capsule.

There is not enough added value in the "wireless feature" for me to spend more money, AND take a performance hit.

Different strokes for different folks

True.
Whatever tickles your "Pickle"...

Think Mark

case in point... esata isn't exactly wireless now is it? so in that regard the comparison is off as you have to have a physical connection between your computer and that esata drive. if you opt to use it (tc) via one of the three gigabit ports, that might tip the equation somewhat, seeing as gigabit should yield considerably higher throughput than wireless, even 802.11n, ever will.
on the price.. well i, too, think it's a bit steep all things considered. after all 500gig samsung sata drives are on sale for something like 75 euros around here. but then again apple claims the drives to be 'server grade' so that usually adds a buck and a half to a regular harddisk. throw in the printer port, it being wireless, etc...

From one small post notifying the community of a sale, has spawned all of this


Think Mark

I take full responsibility for the mess that this has snow balled into.

My internet alter ego is extremely confrontational.

I wouldn't say your confrontational. Just that you seem to have a little PMT...
No offense ladies


Think Mark

PMT?

I think you might mean PMS. Regardless, no need to apologize to the ladies. There are none here.

Have you not met the Ladies who post in these here forums?

I think i should have put PMS... I really take no notice in science class...

Think Mark

I'm pretty sure there's only one lady that we need to worry about on this forum.

A few more things to take into consideration.
I don't think you can have more then one person connected to a eSATA drive for backups at the same time. And even if you could, I wouldn't want several long wires going around the house to connect to my external hard drive.

So when considering the price tag you may want to take that into account. But I admit it's not all that as you can certainly get cheap wireless routers nowadays.

@19

I have a name, you know.

WHOA! I step away for 2 minutes and BAM! What is going on here? I just wanted to notify everyone who wanted one. I didn't want a debate. Besides, the sale is over. Mods, lock this...

I would if i could...

Think Mark

Well my time machine works well. I got it to manage the wireless backups of the various macbooks we have in the house. After the initial backup, the backups work transparently.

BTW, I got mine with a government discount, not as good a discount as Best Buy, but a discount nonetheless.

I think we'd all like to know where you got a Macbook with eSATA

if you dont have a laptop as a main machine then your commentry is sort of... how do I put this..... irrelevant?

And now they are all sold out online.