March 19th, 2008 by Mike
I believe there where a lot of smiles on the faces of Apple Airport Extreme owners who have been counting or should I say waiting on Apple to come through with a fix for the Time Machine support of Airport Extreme AirDisk drives.
All I can say is a big thanks goes out to Apple, right now two Mac Laptops in my home are happily backing up to my 1TB AirDisk drive connected to my Apple Airport Extreme. Once they are finished I will be backing up my main Mac to it as well.
You can update your Airport Firmware via Software Update or download it from here.
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January 17th, 2008 by Mike
Is it a coincidence that the MacBook Air, Time Capsule and the Apple TV 2 software update all come out in about two weeks time? I have a theory about this. There are definitely some overlapping technologies going on and in order to pull it all off I believe leopard is going to need that 10.5 2 update that we have all been hearing about to pull it all off…
The MacBook Air doesn’t have an Optical drive so it requires you purchase an External USB SuperDrive or you share another computer’s optical drive on your network. Strangely enough this feature would sure come in handy with an Apple TV since it also doesn’t have an internal optical drive, maybe this handy little Apple external USB SuperDrive could also be used with an Apple TV 2? Maybe an Apple TV 2 will allow you both options?
And then there’s Time Capsule! What gives here? What is so different about a drive being internal or externally connected to an AirPort Extreme’s USB port? I know people are talking about network drop outs and how they can affect transfers in mid process potentially corrupting or erasing data, but this is Apple we’re talking about, I’m sure they have this all figured out??
Basically what I’m saying is I think Apple has a few more ticks up their sleeve and it makes a lot of sense that the Leopard OS X 10.5.2 update will also play a big role in all of this. Stay tuned…
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