Video: Apple's Time Capsule
January 16th, 2008 by Jeremy RocheApple CEO Steve Jobs announced a back-up device called Time Capsule at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco on Tuesday, which automates the Time Machine backup application in Mac OS X Leopard.
Time Capsule, which was one of four major announcements from Jobs's keynote speech, is basically an 802.11n wireless router with a 500GB or 1TB hard disk drive, which follows the design of Apple's Airport Extreme.
"We want people backing up their content," Jobs said.
Once set up, Leopard's built-in Time Machine software can automate the backup of data from all Macs on a single network to the Time Capsule.
Wired connectivity options include three Gigabit LAN ports, one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port and a USB 2.0 port. Security-wise the Time Capsule supports WPA, WPA2 and 128-bit WEP encryption.
The Time Capsule costs AU$429 for the 500GB model and AU$699 for the 1TB version.
The rear end of the Apple Time Capsule.
At Macworld 2008, Apple also announced its MacBook
Air, iTunes Movie Rentals (in the US), and updated software for its iPhone, Apple TV.
Apple's Time Capsule isn't as round or cylindrical as you might expect.
I bought to av cable and my ipod classic plays movies on my tv but not my iPod touch! the videos play for like one second and then backs out to the videos menu. Do i really have to buy the cable directly from Apple? How am I having problems with the newer ipod rather than this old 5th generation ipod! Suggestions anyone? 
Adam
January 17th, 2008 at 7:02am
You have a typo.. it says 1GB where it should say 1TB
admin
January 17th, 2008 at 8:19am
Thanks Adam. We've updated the story.
Lennie
February 12th, 2008 at 12:40am
Great site guys. Just wondered if you guys have used Time Capsule and if it can be used as a regular NAS? If it can, then can your music be stored on it and iTunes read the music from it like an external drive. And thirdly, can it be used to stream across to a PS3, via a Mac or even on it's own? Cheers.