Saturday, August 16, 2008
Some new hardware on it's way
Saturday, August 16, 2008 
This weekend is tax-free in MA. I know, big deal, it's akin to a 5% sale any other time of the year, but we're going to go out and look at some things and one of the trips will be to an Apple Store.
My plans are this... we currently have FiOS in our home, but the wireless is relegated to the FiOS router and an older 802.11g Airport Extreme. While the Verizon router is cool, most of the time to print, etc. a connection to the AE is needed. So we use that a lot, and the AppleTV uses the older AE .11g.
The range of the older AE isn't bad, but 802.11n will be 2x and also take advantage of the FiOS service more (5x the throughput compared to .11g). Now, my wife's laptop is home to a lot of digital media. Backup to TimeMachine is a good idea, right? Yup. We haven't backed stuff up to MobileMe in a long time, and would like to keep that space cleaner for web galleries and things like that.
Well, bring on a 500GB Time Capsule ($299). Add an external 500GB drive to that, and the laptop has access to another drive altogether for fun. 1TB connected is looking pretty tasty though... 1TB of storage accessible from the laptop is pretty enticing.
I was originally planning on procuring a 1TB TimeCapsule, but that's just too much space for us at the moment to have dedicated solely for backup. It's only another $100 on top of the 500MB but still.
I was thinking of attaching a 1TB drive to the TimeCapsule (a $329 LaCie), and I might talk myself into doing that once we get in store at The Natick Collection. As long as it shows up as a shared drive via TC, it's almost a no-brainer. Super-easy backup & an extra 1TB of accessible storage.
However, that wouldn't be TimeMachined... or would it? I'd think Apple would have thought of that, but a question for a sales associate might be in order there.
My plans are this... we currently have FiOS in our home, but the wireless is relegated to the FiOS router and an older 802.11g Airport Extreme. While the Verizon router is cool, most of the time to print, etc. a connection to the AE is needed. So we use that a lot, and the AppleTV uses the older AE .11g.
The range of the older AE isn't bad, but 802.11n will be 2x and also take advantage of the FiOS service more (5x the throughput compared to .11g). Now, my wife's laptop is home to a lot of digital media. Backup to TimeMachine is a good idea, right? Yup. We haven't backed stuff up to MobileMe in a long time, and would like to keep that space cleaner for web galleries and things like that.
Well, bring on a 500GB Time Capsule ($299). Add an external 500GB drive to that, and the laptop has access to another drive altogether for fun. 1TB connected is looking pretty tasty though... 1TB of storage accessible from the laptop is pretty enticing.I was originally planning on procuring a 1TB TimeCapsule, but that's just too much space for us at the moment to have dedicated solely for backup. It's only another $100 on top of the 500MB but still.
I was thinking of attaching a 1TB drive to the TimeCapsule (a $329 LaCie), and I might talk myself into doing that once we get in store at The Natick Collection. As long as it shows up as a shared drive via TC, it's almost a no-brainer. Super-easy backup & an extra 1TB of accessible storage.However, that wouldn't be TimeMachined... or would it? I'd think Apple would have thought of that, but a question for a sales associate might be in order there.
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