Apple Time Capsule Expert Reviews

Apple's new Time Capsule is one of only two devices we know of that incorporates both a wireless router and a hard drive into the same product. The other, a year-and-a-half-old router from Asus, offers neither the same high-speed wireless bandwidth ...

Clean design ; good deal for Draft-N router and 500GB or 1TB of storage ; low maintenance data backup for Mac users ; extensibility via USB port

Only average networking performance ; few advanced storage features beyond backup capabilities, and those only for Mac users

Apple's Time Capsule, announced today at the Macworld press conference, promises Mac and PC data backup over a wireless network. Time Capsule is essentially an Airport Extreme Base Station with a 500GB or 1TB hard drive built in. The 500GB version ...

The Apple Time Capsule 1TB is an unusual network device in that it combines a wireless-n router (the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n) with a network-accessible hard drive. It's extremely quiet, has good wireless range, and its drive is ...

Quiet, high-capacity hard drive. USB port for external drives, printers. Simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi. Allows extension of wireless range

No automated backup included for Windows machines. No front-facing indicator lights. Can't act as an iTunes server. No hardware redundancy

The Apple Time Capsule 1TB, an unusual combination of a Wi-Fi router and NAS device, gives all-Mac and mixed Windows/Mac networks an effective wireless storage solution.

Apple's updated its Wi-Fi router and backup drive combo, Time Capsule, with a guest mode and simultaneous dual-band wireless. I was pretty surprised at how wireless performance has increased, too.

, there is no better solution than a Time Capsule. And this one is slightly improved over the last. But unlike a year ago when the first generation drive came out, there are other options that are slightly cheaper. More on these later, after the TC ...

This combination network storage drive and router is fast, easy to use, and does a great job of backing up your data.

Very fast network drive, Excellent integration with Time Machine, Good router throughput and range

No media streaming, No remote access, No media streaming

Other NAS drives, such as the Buffalo TeraStation, let you easily stream and remotely access files. However, the Time Capsule works better than software backup solutions because it integrates so smoothly with Apple's Time Machine. It's so easy to use, ...

Once again Apple has delivered another impressive product..

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

No backup for PCs ; setup issues ; expensive

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...

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

No backup for PCs ; setup issues ; expensive

Apple's done a fine job of building an easy way for Leopard users to perform Time Machine backups over the network. But that's it.

Wireless-n at 2.4 or 5 GHz. Flawless operation with networked Time Machine backups, as well as with USB hard drive and printer sharing. Good price.

Lacks home media-serving features. Printer sharing but no print server. No hardware redundancy. No easy upgrade path.

Apple has done a fine job of building an easy way for Leopard users to perform Time Machine backups over the network, but don't expect advanced NAS features.